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A Startup Guide to
‍Defense System Safety

Your practical roadmap to MIL-STD-882 system safety. From hazard analysis to safety assessment, this guide is written for teams new to defense system safety.

What You'll Learn

  • How to stand up a system safety program from scratch
  • Demystify terms and analyses commonly used in system safety
  • How to build a safety case the government will actually accept
  • How to integrate safety into your existing systems engineering processes
  • What the Safety Review Boards expect and how to prepare for them

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Who is this for?

This is built for teams stepping into the defense safety world for the first time.

Startup Founders

Winning your first defense contract and realizing safety deliverables are on the CDRL, but no one on your team has done defense safety before.

Systems Engineers

Responsible for system-level design and need to understand how safety analysis integrates into your engineering lifecycle.

Program Managers

Need to plan and budget for system safety tasks, reviews, and deliverables without stressing about scope creep.

A look inside The Guide...

01

What is System Safety?

02

Reading your Contract

03

The Risk Equation

04

Building Your Safety Org

05

The Hazard Lifecycle

06

Hazard Tracking

07

Your SSPP

08

Working with Your Customer

09

Software's Role In Safety

10

Self-Assessment Checklist

11

Your First 60 Days

12

Common Mistakes

13

References and Resources

14

How Penrove Can Help

Make sure to check out our companion startup guide to defense software safety!

A Startup Guide to Defense Software Safety

Understand how to analyze, track, and prove you are coding safe systems!

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