Joint Federated Assurance Center
Abstract
This project funds the operation and software assurance support to DoD programs and organizations of the Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC), established in National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Sec 937, to increase the DoD’s software assurance (SwA) by providing engineering tools, technical services, best-practices, innovative technologies and other assistance to programs to detect, assess, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities from malicious software attacks and assurance against supply chain exploitation vulnerabilities. The JFAC will provide capabilities for programs to keep assessment findings throughout the life cycle of their systems for data mining (e.g., documentation on rationale for previous mitigation decisions). The collaboration between the JFAC and program offices will help mitigate existing and emerging critical threats and vulnerabilities in software available to all DoD programs. JFAC efforts will continue to maintain infrastructure services and staff for the Joint Federated Assurance Center-Coordination Center (JFAC-CC) for enabling the centralized assurance repository, software assurance contract language, software assurance metrics, the JFAC Ticketing System, software assurance tool license distribution, help-desk, and hard problem analysis. It will also provide for implementation of the science and technology portal at the JFAC website to make directly available to programs and organizations advanced technology solutions from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and other S&T providers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 291_0604294D8Z_4_0400_PB_2020
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