We recently passed into the 21~(st) Century and it is time to assess the challenges facing System Safety in the new millennium. System Safety has been proven to be a fairly stable engineering discipline over the last twenty-plus years. MIL-STD-882B/C/D has pretty much been our guide in the largely successful pursuit of developing safe systems. System safety techniques and analyses are fairly well understood and practiced with varied degrees of success from organization to organization. The System Safety discipline has grown in recognition of its professionalism and necessity. All seems well. Unfortunately, the successes System Safety has experienced in the past are not guaranteed or possibly even indicative of the future. Several new issues are facing our community requiring System Safety Professionals to reassess processes, analyses, methodologies, and commitment. We, the system safety community, must be proactive in the assessment of technological innovations as they become available, and, if possible, before they are incorporated in critical systems.
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机译：我们最近进入了21世纪，现在该是评估新千年系统安全面临的挑战的时候了。在过去的二十多年中，系统安全已被证明是相当稳定的工程学科。在成功开发安全系统的过程中，MIL-STD-882B / C / D几乎是我们的指南。从组织到组织，系统安全技术和分析都得到了很好的理解和实践，并获得了不同程度的成功。由于认识到其专业性和必要性，系统安全学科得到了发展。一切似乎都很好。不幸的是，系统安全公司过去获得的成功并不能得到保证，甚至无法预示未来。我们社区面临着几个新问题，要求系统安全专业人员重新评估流程，分析，方法和承诺。我们（系统安全界）必须在技术创新出现时，以及在可能的情况下，在将其纳入关键系统之前，积极评估技术创新。
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