Mission Assurance includes the disciplined application of system engineering, risk management, quality, and management principles to achieve success of a design, development, testing, deployment, and operations process.
[1] The ultimate goal of Mission Assurance is to create a state of resilience that supports the continuation of an agency's critical business processes and protects its employees, assets, services, and functions.
Mission Assurance addresses risks in a uniform and systematic manner across the entire enterprise.
[2] Mission Assurance is an emerging cross-functional discipline that demands its contributors (project management, governance, system architecture, design, development, integration, testing, and operations) provide and guarantee their combined performance in use.
[3] The United States Department of Defense 8500-series of policies has three defined mission assurance categories that form the basis for availability and integrity requirements.