Standards and compliance
Defence systems and automotive systems share the same core principle: nothing works until everything works. Since 1999, Diadrom has delivered diagnostics, embedded software and lifecycle governance for the most safety-critical systems in the automotive industry. It is the same discipline, the same methodology and in several cases the same families of standards required by the Swedish Armed Forces and FMV.
System safety according to defence requirements
Our system safety work is based on the standards and handbooks governing Swedish defence materiel:
- MIL-STD-882E (System Safety). The US defence standard on which the Swedish Armed Forces' system safety activities are largely based. We work according to its process for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk reduction across the entire lifecycle.
- H SystSäk 2022. The Swedish Armed Forces' System Safety Handbook defines the system safety activities — the system safety programme plan (SSPP), hazard analyses and hazard tracking (TASK 106) — ordered from suppliers in defence procurement. We continuously learn from the handbook and are shaping our delivery model around its activities.
- IEC 61508. The global foundation standard for functional safety in electrical, electronic and programmable systems — one of the established technical standards H SystSäk 2022 points to. The origin of automotive ISO 26262 and thus the common denominator between civilian and military functional safety.
The automotive heritage, our strength
Diadrom's methodology has been shaped by the toughest requirements in the automotive industry:
- ISO 26262 (Road vehicles, functional safety). Functional safety in E/E systems is the core of our automotive work, from concept phase to aftermarket. SS-ISO 26262 is among the technical standards described by H SystSäk 2022, and the risk-based logic is the same as in MIL-STD-882E: the severity of the risk determines how rigorous the development must be.
- ISO/SAE 21434 (Road vehicles, cybersecurity engineering). Security by design, threat modelling and vulnerability management across the lifecycle. The methodology transfers directly to defence requirements for cyber-secure platforms.
Software, quality and information security
- H ProgSäk. FMV's Handbook for Software in Safety-Critical Applications — the methodology H SystSäk 2022 refers to for software criticality levels. We continuously learn from it and develop our approach to safety-critical defence software accordingly, including configuration management, verification and validation.
- DO-178C. We understand the aviation industry's Design Assurance Levels and apply equivalent rigour where the requirements call for it.
- AQAP 2110 / 2210. NATO quality assurance requirements for development and software — the requirement set facing suppliers in defence supply chains.
- ISO 27001. Information security management. We work in accordance with its principles for handling sensitive information.
Diadrom is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 since 2014 — the certificates are published on the quality page.
Traceability is at the heart of both automotive diagnostics and defence system safety. H SystSäk 2022 defines a Hazard Tracking System (TASK 106) for continual risk follow-up and a consolidated picture of identified hazards across the system's lifecycle. That is, in practice, what Diadrom has been building since 1999: platforms that make system health, faults and corrective actions traceable and provable. We call it controlled AI on a provable foundation.
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Last reviewed 6 July 2026.