I\'ve heard that the automotive industry has something called MISRA C.
What are the relevant standards for other high reliability/availability/security industries, such
NIST provides a whole slew of related documents, you can dive in and peruse their work - but there is a lot of it, and it's all quite verbose, so I dont have a specific one to point you at.
If you want to be more specific with your needs, I might be able to narrow it down a bit...
In addition, Carnegie Mellon is pretty much the definitive when it comes to development processes for reliability, easy enough to find their standards but also quite verbose.
Also, specific industries often have their own standards, depending also on the country. For instance, credit card industry - PCI-DSS; Banking industry in EU - Basel II; Medical - HIPAA (though thats pretty high-level); anything US government related, various NIST docs; etc.