Management

High Assurance Systems was founded in 2010. We are passionate about using advanced technology to help meet the software security, safety, and other needs of our customers.

Rob Hoffman - President

Rob is a co-founder of High Assurance Systems and is responsible for general management, marketing, and sales. He is an authority on partitioning operating systems; has presented at defense conferences; and as a member of the OUSD(AT&L) Unmanned Aircraft System Control Segment Working Group, led the platform infrastructure services task group, represented the group to NSA, and currently serves as Vice Chair of its Technical Review Board.

Prior to High Assurance Systems, Rob led aerospace and defense (A&D) at Wind River. As Vice President and General Manager of A&D, he grew this business from $71 million to over $100 million in less than three years. Previously, Rob held positions in sales and marketing; was operations director for the platforms division; was director of an engineering unit; and was responsible for worldwide customer support, process improvement, and technical publications.

Prior to Wind River, Rob worked at The Rand Corporation in software tool development and weather modeling, at Information Sciences Institute managing customer support for part of the ARPANET and in machine translation, and at Fluor Corporation on an electrical cabling layout program for large refineries.

Gerry Kuhn - Vice President, Products and Services

Gerry Kuhn co-founded High Assurance Systems and is responsible for all product and services development and deliverables, setting technical direction, and operations. Gerry has extensive experience in operating systems, security operating systems, fault tolerance, and high-availability.

Prior to High Assurance Systems, Gerry was Senior Director, Security Platforms, at Wind River (acquired by Intel in 2009). He was responsible for the development of VxWorks 653 (a partitioned operating system for use on aircraft certified to the DO-178B safety standard) and VxWorks MILS (a security partitioned operating system, accepted by NSA-NIAP for high assurance evaluation). Previous responsibilities at Wind River included managing the development of market-specific platforms for the industrial, consumer, and automotive markets.

Prior to Wind River, Gerry co-founded DSP Foundry (acquired by Wind River in 1997). DSP Foundry created an extremely small, highly efficient real-time operating system for digital signal processors that leveraged Wind River’s Tornado development tools.

Before that, Gerry worked at Nortel Networks (then Bell-Northern Research) on its Passport voice/data switch, at Canadian Astronautics Limited in its defense division, at Rohde & Schwarz, Canada, on radio direction finders, and at Mitel Corporation on private-branch exchange equipment.