Note: While independent, the IV&V provider is still a part of a project's overall safety and risk mitigation software assurance strategy. The results of IV&V analysis need to be incorporated into the overall software assurance assessment of the project and provided to the project management. The IV&V provider should support project milestone reviews and provide the project with an evaluation of the life cycle review artifacts to assist development management decisions on whether the review criteria have been met and how to proceed going forward.
