Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems

The DAHCS Mission Campaign aims to develop the scientific foundation needed for rigorous, rapid, cost-effective, generalizable digital assurance across high consequence lifecycles, enabling the efficient characterization, assessment, and management of digital risk.
The DAHCS Mission Campaign aims to develop the scientific foundation needed for rigorous, rapid, cost-effective, generalizable digital assurance across high consequence lifecycles, enabling the efficient characterization, assessment, and management of digital risk.

The Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems (DAHCS, pronounced “Dax”) Mission Campaign seeks to create new tools and methods that lead to empirical, ideally measurable digital assurance of high consequence systems (HCS) across nuclear weapons, hypersonics, space, and critical infrastructure missions, ultimately enabling decision-makers to make confident, evidence-based system trade-offs that consider mission risk from current and future digital threats.

Achieving true digital assurance requires comprehensively understanding how digital systems – from silicon to software and interconnected components – interact within HCS in both ideal and “off-nominal” conditions, particularly in the face of adversaries.

VISION: Digital assurance is integrated into the discipline of systems engineering, allowing systems-level tradeoffs against digital risk.

PARTNER WITH DAHCS: Contact dahcsmc-help@sandia.gov

LEARN MORE ABOUT DAHCS: The Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems (DAHCS) Mission Campaign Whitepaper, 2024