Developing an Assurance Case for an Optical Communication Mission in a Model Based Setting

NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance has adopted an objectives-based approach to standards to ensure that the Safety and Mission Assurance disciplines and programs are addressing the challenges of NASA’s changing missions, acquisition and engineering practices, and technology. Starting with the Reliability and Maintainability discipline, an objectives hierarchy was developed to systematically decompose technical considerations that form the basis for that discipline.