Got mine from a lvl6 Slicing Mission. In fact, all of the Ship Upgrade schems I've gotten have come from slicing.

QFT Once you lose the oven mits, you'll be rejoicing that you don't look like a sweedish milkmaid.

I can't confirm or deny any bizarre possible bugs with Artiface, but I currently have a 16 Trooper with 400 Cybermech. It's been nice have fresh blue armoring and mods for my first 50 and soon to be 2nd.