[1][2] It establishes a process of checks and balances on these electronic control units (ECUs) that can ensure the authenticity of incoming software updates.
[6] Uptane was developed by a team of engineers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, NY, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, and the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX.
[7][8] It was developed as open source software under a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
[9] In 2018, the Uptane Alliance, a non-profit organization, was formed under the aegis of IEEE-ISTO[10][11] to oversee the first formal release of a standard.
[13] As of 2020, multiple implementations of Uptane are available, both through open source projects such as the Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux,[14][15] and through third party commercial suppliers, such as Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS), now part of Here Technologies,[16][17] and Airbiquity.