To shepherd an emerging capability through an otherwise conventional certification process, an applicant must address several challenges. In this paper, we are concerned with challenges that arise when considering how to take functions that use novel development or assessment approaches through familiar development assurance and system safety processes. We identify specific challenges in this regard, relating to new domain-specific input, process interface expectations, and the determination, documentation, and provision of assurance rationale. From these, we derive building blocks in an early process model for planning the integration of new means and methods into a certification program. These building blocks characterize the assurance-critical properties that orient a program, the domain and process considerations to which to give special attention, and how to begin to establish and communicate assurance rationale outside of the scaffold of a standard or other accepted practice. To do this in a deliberate and consistent way, we introduce the use of structured argument as an organizing principle. Further, the building blocks indicate tasking and resourcing to provision for in the management of a program and associated projects. The model offers a basis around which applicants can organize development and certification planning for novel system elements, and with which to support engagement with regulators regarding rationales and evaluation frameworks for novel assurance approaches.
Integrating New Means and Methods into Existing Certification Practice
2022-09-18
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Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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