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Ann Marie Neufelder

Ann Marie Neufelder

Ann Marie Neufelder developed the NASA software FMEA and software FTA webinars as well as NASA’s Software Analyses training class.  

NASA Software Safety Handbook

NASA Software Safety Handbook 8719-13Ann Marie has also researched and categorized every software failure in the space industry by root cause – faulty data and faulty error handling are so far the most common.  Faulty timing, faulty sequencing, faulty processing and faulty state management are other root causes.

NASA Software Safety Handbook 8719.13 and NASA Software Assurance and Software Safety Standard 8739.8a are the basis for the software FMEA and software safety assessments we employ for space systems.  We also are experts on IEEE 1633 which is referenced by NASA 8739.8a.

Ann Marie and her team have successfully implemented the safety-related practices in the NASA Software Safety Handbook 8719.13. In fact, our benchmarking study shows that several of these practices correlate to reduced software defect density and increased software reliability in addition to affecting safety.

Our benchmarking shows that the criteria discussed in NASA Software Assurance and Software Safety Standard 8739.8a is also correlated to reduced software defect density and increased reliability in addition to affecting software safety. These criteria are a standard consideration in the software FMEA services we provide. Ann Marie Neufelder has analyzed the software-related failure modes and root causes for the NASA software-related mishaps and incorporates each of them into the software FMEA analysis.  Ann Marie has also analyzed the process-related failure modes for the NASA software-related mishaps.  

Every failure event has at least one functional root cause and one process root cause.  The process root causes are what went wrong in software development that allowed the defect in the software to escape.  This database of events is how we can assess the likelihood of software failure modes in the software failure modes effects analysis.

Our team has decades of experience ensuring mission-ready space systems.