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
