K05 assurance architecture

Authorized external effects remain separate from facility defense

Direct answer

External cyber surveillance or effects support is never triggered solely by a facility defensive model and proceeds only through a separately approved mission package, federal or other competent authority, deconfliction, effect constraints, and post-operation accountability.

Evidence boundary. These records describe architecture, control relationships, test requirements, and legal-source status. They do not certify a facility, authorize a mission, prove deployment, or replace current facility-specific engineering and legal review.

Claim

External cyber surveillance or effects support is never triggered solely by a facility defensive model and proceeds only through a separately approved mission package, federal or other competent authority, deconfliction, effect constraints, and post-operation accountability.

Argument

Internal defense and external state action have different authorities, target risks, third-party effects, and escalation consequences.

Evidence requirements

  • mission package
  • written approval and direction
  • target adjudication
  • deconfliction evidence
  • critical-outcome assessment
  • abort and minimization procedures
  • execution and effects report

Assurance defeaters

  • private self-authorization
  • uncertain target ownership
  • unresolved third-party infrastructure
  • missing state authority
  • critical-outcome risk
  • scope expansion

Hazards

  • sovereignty violation
  • collateral system damage
  • intelligence conflict
  • escalation
  • state responsibility

Recovery objectives

  • cease outside parameters
  • minimize unintended access
  • notify authority
  • preserve evidence
  • conduct post-operation review

Site-tailoring questions

  • mission sponsor
  • target class
  • jurisdiction
  • allied equities
  • classified annex

Sources and record

Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime · 6 U.S.C. § 124n — Protection of Certain Facilities and Assets from Unmanned Aircraft

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