Barron Associates Receives NASA Award to Develop Next Generation Software Assurance Technology

Under a recently completed NASA SBIR Phase II project, Barron Associates led a team that compared Assurance Case methods for software assurance to a process based on the DO-178B standard that has been widely used in the aerospace industry for many years. Building on this success, Barron Associates has received Phase III funding to expand the scope of work to explicitly consider the impact of software on system safety. Detect and Avoid technology for an Unmanned Air System will serve as an example context in which to develop the Assurance Case methods.