Mission Assurance is a full life-cycle engineering process to identify and mitigate design, production, test, and field support deficiencies threatening mission success.
Mission Assurance includes the disciplined application of system engineering, risk management, quality, and management principles to achieve success of a design, development, testing, deployment, and operations process. Mission Assurance's ideal is achieving 100% customer success every time. Mission Assurance reaches across the enterprise, supply base, business partners, and customer base to enable customer success.[1]
The ultimate goal of Mission Assurance is to create a state of resilience that supports the continuation of an agency's critical business processes and protects its employees, assets, services, and functions. Mission Assurance addresses risks in a uniform and systematic manner across the entire enterprise.[2]
Mission Assurance is an emerging cross-functional discipline that demands its contributors (project management, governance, system architecture, design, development, integration, testing, and operations) provide and guarantee their combined performance in use.[3]
The United States Department of Defense 8500-series of policies has three defined mission assurance categories that form the basis for availability and integrity requirements. [4][5] A Mission Assurance Category (MAC) is assigned to all DoD systems .[6] It reflects the importance of an information system for the successful completion of a DoD mission. It also determines the requirements for availability and integrity.
MAC I systems handle information vital to the operational readiness or effectiveness of deployed or contingency forces. Because the loss of MAC I data would cause severe damage to the successful completion of a DoD mission, MAC I systems must maintain the highest levels of both integrity and availability and use the most rigorous measure of protection.
MAC II systems handle information important to the support of deployed and contingency forces. The loss of MAC II systems could have a significant negative impact on the success of the mission or operational readiness. The loss of integrity of MAC II data is unacceptable; therefore MAC II systems must maintain the highest level of integrity. The loss of availability of MAC II data can be tolerated only for a short period of time, so MAC II systems must maintain a medium level of availability. MAC II systems require protective measures above industry best practices to ensure adequate integrity and availability of data.
MAC III systems handle information that is necessary for day-to-day operations, but not directly related to the support of deployed or contingency forces. The loss of MAC III data would not have an immediate impact on the effectiveness of a mission or operational readiness. Since the loss of MAC III data would not have a significant impact on mission effectiveness or operational readiness in the short term, MAC III systems are required to maintain basic levels of integrity and availability. MAC III systems must be protected by measures considered as industry best practices.
NASA's is an implementation of Mission Assurance that provides "quick and easy access to critical Safety & Mission Assurance data... across all NASA programs and projects." [7]
Mission Assurance in a Budget-Constrained Environment: 29th National Space Symposium, April 2013. Addresses "mission assurance" as the term is used in the US Department of Defense space launch industry for military payloads (with one definition given at approximately 12:00 ff. in the video).
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Mission Assurance is a full life cycle engineering process to identify and mitigate design production test and field support deficiencies threatening mission success Contents 1 Aspects of Mission Assurance 2 See also 3 External links 4 ReferencesAspects of Mission Assurance editMission Assurance includes the disciplined application of system engineering risk management quality and management principles to achieve success of a design development testing deployment and operations process Mission Assurance s ideal is achieving 100 customer success every time Mission Assurance reaches across the enterprise supply base business partners and customer base to enable customer success 1 The ultimate goal of Mission Assurance is to create a state of resilience that supports the continuation of an agency s critical business processes and protects its employees assets services and functions Mission Assurance addresses risks in a uniform and systematic manner across the entire enterprise 2 Mission Assurance is an emerging cross functional discipline that demands its contributors project management governance system architecture design development integration testing and operations provide and guarantee their combined performance in use 3 The United States Department of Defense 8500 series of policies has three defined mission assurance categories that form the basis for availability and integrity requirements 4 5 A Mission Assurance Category MAC is assigned to all DoD systems 6 It reflects the importance of an information system for the successful completion of a DoD mission It also determines the requirements for availability and integrity MAC I systems handle information vital to the operational readiness or effectiveness of deployed or contingency forces Because the loss of MAC I data would cause severe damage to the successful completion of a DoD mission MAC I systems must maintain the highest levels of both integrity and availability and use the most rigorous measure of protection MAC II systems handle information important to the support of deployed and contingency forces The loss of MAC II systems could have a significant negative impact on the success of the mission or operational readiness The loss of integrity of MAC II data is unacceptable therefore MAC II systems must maintain the highest level of integrity The loss of availability of MAC II data can be tolerated only for a short period of time so MAC II systems must maintain a medium level of availability MAC II systems require protective measures above industry best practices to ensure adequate integrity and availability of data MAC III systems handle information that is necessary for day to day operations but not directly related to the support of deployed or contingency forces The loss of MAC III data would not have an immediate impact on the effectiveness of a mission or operational readiness Since the loss of MAC III data would not have a significant impact on mission effectiveness or operational readiness in the short term MAC III systems are required to maintain basic levels of integrity and availability MAC III systems must be protected by measures considered as industry best practices NASA s Process Based Mission Assurance Knowledge Based System is an implementation of Mission Assurance that provides quick and easy access to critical Safety amp Mission Assurance data across all NASA programs and projects 7 See also editeMASS Information Assurance Reliability engineering Quality engineering Risk management Availability IntegrityExternal links editMission Assurance in a Budget Constrained Environment 29th National Space Symposium April 2013 Addresses mission assurance as the term is used in the US Department of Defense space launch industry for military payloads with one definition given at approximately 12 00 ff in the video References edit Mission Assurance Gov t Needs To Manage Risk Differently in Face of New Operating Realities Booz Allen Hamilton Inc on 8 Mar 04 Archived from the original on September 29 2008 Retrieved 2009 09 04 The Role of CMMI in Mission Assurance PDF John Grimm Vice President of Engineering Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems 16 Nov 04 Archived from the original PDF on May 27 2006 Retrieved 2009 09 04 The Need for Mission Assurance PDF RAHUL GUPTA PRTM 2006 Retrieved 2009 09 04 Information Assurance Mission Assurance Category and Confidentiality Level PDF Department of Defense Archived from the original PDF on 2011 07 22 Retrieved 2009 09 04 DoD Instruction 8500 2 Information Assurance IA Implementation 2 6 2003 PDF Department of Defense Archived from the original PDF on 2009 11 22 Retrieved 2010 03 06 DIACAP Overview Department of Defense Archived from the original on 2009 02 01 Retrieved 2011 03 09 Process Based Mission Assurance Knowledge Based System NASA Archived from the original on July 30 2009 Retrieved 2009 09 04 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mission assurance amp oldid 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