Overview
The Advisory Committee on Trustworthy Systems (ACTS) is an independent, not-for-profit, UK Public Good activity for Making Systems Better. It is constituted from representatives from, in alphabetical order, Academia, Government, Professional Bodies, Regulators, Standards Development Organisations (SDO), and Trade Bodies.
Its primary Responsibilities are the curation of both the Trustworthy Systems Framework (TFSr) -- the core, Normative, Adopted Specifications (AS), and supporting, Informative, Exemplar Templates (ET) -- and associated Training, Education, and Awareness (TEA) materials.
News
A new Version 5.0 of the TSFr is currently under development, with a Draft for Public Consultation (DPC) expected to be launched during 4Q2025.
As part of the v5.0 update, consideration will be given to expanding the formats in which the informative TSFr-ET are made available, to include not only common word processing formats, but also potentially to include more structured formats, with initial stakeholder feedback suggesting options such as Spreadsheets, XML / JSON, and even Quines.