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AF Technical Committee · AF/TC 10

Cybersecurity & Digital Resilience

Continuing AF Technical Committee for aerospace cybersecurity and digital resilience.

CommitteeAF/TC 10
DomainDigital & Emerging Technology
Technical scopeAircraft and avionics security · Space and satellite security · Ground systems

Understand the distinction

A technical home, not a blanket approval authority.

Read scope, responsibilities and related work together. Cross-disciplinary subjects can need more than one Committee.

Continuity and coordination

A Committee retains subject knowledge, coordinates review and connects related Working Group activity. Its public scope is the starting point for placing a question.

Technical focus areas
Focused execution

A Working Group addresses a bounded question, evidence task or draft. A completed draft or Committee recommendation is distinct from authorized publication.

Technical Work Process
Participation is considered separately

Relevant experience and competence need to fit the subject and the applicable arrangements. Membership alone does not confer an appointment or voting authority.

Eligibility and participation

Committee purpose

Purpose

Connected aircraft, spacecraft and ground systems depend on trustworthy software, communications and digital infrastructure. AF/TC 10 provides a continuing technical home for examining resilience across those interfaces and for relating cyber questions to system safety and operational continuity.

Committee responsibility

Coordinates technical questions about cybersecurity and resilience across aerospace systems, their infrastructure and digital supply chains.

Continuing technical role

What the Committee Does

Within its defined scope, AF/TC 10 maintains continuity between related questions and the work developed to address them.

  • Identifies security and resilience questions across airborne, space and ground environments.
  • Reviews technical evidence concerning software, communications and supply-chain exposure.
  • Connects cyber considerations with avionics, space operations, autonomy and assurance.
  • Supports focused Working Groups on defined threat, architecture or resilience questions.

Defined subject boundary

Technical Scope

The Committee's technical scope provides the subject boundary for continuing coordination. Related questions may still require input from other Committees.

Aerospace systems

  • Aircraft and avionics security
  • Space and satellite security
  • Ground-system security
  • Secure communications

Digital resilience

  • Software and supply-chain security
  • GNSS resilience
  • Digital infrastructure continuity
  • System-level cyber-assurance questions

Topic route

How technical work enters the Committee

A question can be identified within the Committee's scope or referred through AF Technical Work. The appropriate route depends on relevance, existing evidence and the work required.

  1. 01Technical need identified
  2. 02Topic submitted or referred
  3. 03Scope and existing landscape reviewed
  4. 04Appropriate route considered
  5. 05Working Group, research or direct review where appropriate
  6. 06Committee review and technical recommendation
  7. 07Applicable AF output or decision process

Understand the Technical Work Process

Focused technical development

Expert Working Groups

Where a defined question requires focused development, the Committee may support an Expert Working Group with an appropriate mandate, expertise and expected output. Work may include research, evidence review, technical drafting, landscape analysis, comparison or consultation preparation.

A Working Group reports its findings through the relevant technical structure; it does not independently make a final AF institutional decision.

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Connected expertise

Cross-Committee Coordination

Many aerospace questions cross technical boundaries. AF/TC 10 may coordinate with the Committees below when their expertise is relevant; these are peer relationships, not lines of subordination.

Related AF Technical Work

From continuing expertise to a defined output.

Committee coordination sits alongside the AF process for topic intake, focused work, review and consultation. The Committee's recommendation moves onward only through the applicable technical and institutional process.

Technical Work Overview Focus Areas Technical Work Process Public Consultations

Technical participation

Interested in contributing to AF/TC 10?

Cybersecurity engineers, software specialists, operators and system-assurance practitioners can contribute relevant threat and resilience expertise. Eligible members and relevant technical experts may share their interests through the Federation's participation routes. Membership does not automatically create a Committee appointment.

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