Helsing white paper: Software-defined assurance

It’s clear that we’re in an era of rapid change in defence. Affordable mass and autonomy are changing warfare on land, at sea and in the air. The moniker software-defined defence captures the essential nature of this new era.

This wave of change is posing critical strategic questions related to how a country obtains and maintains defence capabilities. As John Healey MP, UK Secretary of State for Defence, said recently: “Adversaries must know that we have an industry with the capacity to generate and regenerate the equipment our forces need, that we have a science and tech base to ensure that we can deliver leading edge capabilities and that we have the ability to innovate at a wartime pace.”

The white paper that we’re publishing today relates to how we build capabilities, and specifically to assurance: the rules that we impose on ourselves to ensure that our defence capabilities are reliable and safe. It proposes that we should adapt our assurance processes for the software-defined era by formulating a model that we call software-defined assurance.

You can find the white paper on our website: https://helsing.ai/download/whitepapers/software-defined-assurance