The lead author of this standard is Gerard Holzmann, a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the NAE.  He works at JPL, and has been instrumental in introducing code analysis to flight software (e.g., <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov</a>).<p>The analyzers JPL currently uses are Coverity, Semmle, CodeSonar, and Klocwork.   Coverity seems most common.<p>Of course, Gerard was an author of Spin (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;spin&#x2F;whatispin.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;spin&#x2F;whatispin.html</a>).