Digital Assurance

A term for practices, measures and/or controls applied to digital technologies that implement functions within a nuclear weapon (NW) or NW design, production, or test capability, in order to ensure functional, performance and security-related requirements are met while protecting against potential compromise or subversion of these same systems from internal or external sources. Examples of digital technologies include software/firmware, processors, memory devices, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), digital systems on a chip, communication interfaces, communication buses and transmission system, etc.