Software is a major factor in corporate operations, consumer goods, military systems, environmental and energy services, communications, health care, and government operations. High integrity software is software that can and must be trusted to work dependably and is a growing necessity for the ability of United States industries and government to function. To enable the U.S. software industry to build high integrity software and to provide U.S. industries and government confidence in the software systems on which they are dependent, NIST created the Center for High Integrity Software System Assurance (CHISSA) to establish criteria for software assurance for use by those who build or evaluate these systems. The measurements and associated methods will be embodied in a software development and assurance framework that will enable CHISSA to identify needed research in high integrity software assurance, to accelerate use of effective technology into industry, and to develop standards and guidelines in cooperation with industry, other Federal agencies, and the research community.
