Introduction to Engineering Safe and Dependable Systems
Many of our system and product solutions have involved adapting the latest state of the art in safety and dependability research to constraints imposed by high performance, distributed, computing systems that combine the capabilities of both legacy subsystems and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) hardware and software. Typical engineering tasks that S/TDC has supported include system:

• Requirements and Specifications
• Fault Definition
• Architecture Trades
• Error Detection and Recovery Architectures
• Dependability Modeling
• Design of Error Handling Mechanisms
• Evaluation of COTS Products
• Customization of COTS Products
• Selection of Advanced Technologies
• Design of System Validation Capabilities
• Design of System-Wide Event, Error and Failure Logs
• System Pre-Deployment Dependability Evaluation and Validation
• Design and Implementation of Centralized, Automated, System Testing Environments
• System Post-Deployment Dependability Evaluation and Validation
• System Dependability Optimization (using Analyses of O&M data)