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Adapting Mission Assurance

Aerospace is leading a coalition of mission assurance practitioners across the enterprise in adapting mission assurance practices to a changing space enterprise.

We hear every day that space is changing. That we need to move faster. Accept more risk. Be agile. Adapt to proliferated and hybrid architectures. Take a different approach to mission assurance. But what does all this actually mean? 

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2024 Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop

The 2024 Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop will be held on Nov. 13-14, 2024 at NASA Ames Research Center and features presentations from government, industry, and academia on topics, include:
- Adaptive mission assurance taxonomies, frameworks, and philosophies
- Approaches, tools, and techniques that promote agility in mission assurance
- Managing risk and failure
- Prioritizing mission assurance activities within constrained resources
- Missions applying new assurance techniques
- Failure stories – learning from failure
- Policy and cultural obstacles to adapting mission assurance, accepting risk, and moving fast
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Outcomes of 2023 Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop

Aerospace and NASA co-sponsored the second annual Adapting Mission Assurance (AMA) mini-conference to bring industry and government mission assurance experts together to discuss the approach to mission assurance for a rapidly changing space domain. Experts developed “calls to action” to focus efforts. Learn more about some of the key takeaways here.
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2022 Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop

In October 2022 small and non-traditional space mission developers participated in the inaugural Adapting Mission Assurance workshop. held in Albuquerque, NM. The event highlighted key challenges to agencies looking to evolve mission assurance practices.

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