[ { "claimGroup": "International cyber law, sovereignty, state responsibility, and the 2026 CE-TCO program", "finding": "The August 12, 2026 memorandum was located and confirms a federally controlled participating-company program. Broader report propositions about sovereignty, due diligence, attribution, privateering, and international responsibility remain facts- and jurisdiction-dependent.", "id": "VAL-K05-001", "qualification": "The memorandum does not settle disputed customary international law or authorize independent private retaliation.", "reportId": "REP-K04-041", "result": "OFFICIAL PROGRAM TEXT VERIFIED; GENERAL LEGAL DOCTRINES REMAIN CONTESTED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-WH-CYBER-CRIME-MEMO-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Anticipatory self-defense, preemption, prevention, contextual imminence, and unable-or-unwilling", "finding": "The report's distinctions remain useful research, but K05 did not locate a single current primary source that resolves all claimed doctrines across jurisdictions.", "id": "VAL-K05-002", "qualification": "Preemption, prevention, imminence, necessity, proportionality, attribution, and third-state sovereignty require a competent facts-specific legal review.", "reportId": "REP-K04-042", "result": "CONTESTED LEGAL RESEARCH; NO UNIVERSAL CURRENT-LAW CONCLUSION", "sourceIds": [] }, { "claimGroup": "Preemptive cyber operations against known threat groups", "finding": "The report's active-defense and contextual-imminence analysis remains research. K05 separates internal facility defense from any external surveillance or effects mission and requires a separately approved authority package.", "id": "VAL-K05-003", "qualification": "No report language creates target status, mission authority, or a general private hack-back right.", "reportId": "REP-K04-043", "result": "STRATEGIC RESEARCH RETAINED; EXTERNAL EFFECTS REQUIRE SEPARATE AUTHORITY", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-WH-CYBER-CRIME-MEMO-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "U.S. executive initiatives, GOLD EAGLE, and participating-company legal architecture", "finding": "EO 14409, the GOLD EAGLE announcement, and the CE-TCO memorandum were located. The participating-company program requires federal control, supervision, deconfliction, package review, written approval and direction, stop procedures, and critical-outcome limits.", "id": "VAL-K05-004", "qualification": "Official publication verifies policy text, not implementation depth, judicial validity, foreign-law acceptance, or completed operations.", "reportId": "REP-K04-044", "result": "OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS VERIFIED WITH SCOPE NARROWING", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-WH-EO-14409", "SRC-WH-GOLD-EAGLE-2026", "SRC-WH-CYBER-CRIME-MEMO-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Autonomous active defense for microreactor-powered datacenters", "finding": "K05 retains the high-consequence physical-protection problem while correcting the FAA critical-infrastructure petition process to proposed-rule status and separating airspace restriction from actor-specific counter-UAS authority.", "id": "VAL-K05-005", "qualification": "The public corpus does not endorse autonomous lethal force or infer private authority to jam, spoof, seize, damage, or destroy aircraft.", "reportId": "REP-K04-045", "result": "SCENARIO RETAINED; AUTHORITY AND FORCE CLAIMS NARROWED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-FAA-CI-UAS-NPRM-2026", "SRC-USC-6-124N", "SRC-USC-47-333", "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-SUBPART-J-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Algorithmic conflict and machine-intelligence warfare", "finding": "The report supports the K05 focus on algorithmic resilience, edge operation, adversarial models, distributed autonomy, and electromagnetic competition.", "id": "VAL-K05-006", "qualification": "Named budgets, program status, fielding dates, battle results, and quantitative performance require direct primary-source review before current use.", "reportId": "REP-K04-046", "result": "STRATEGIC RESEARCH RETAINED; NAMED PROGRAM AND PERFORMANCE CLAIMS SOURCE-BOUND", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-DODD-3000-09" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Machine-speed autonomous cyber offense and defense", "finding": "Official sources support AI-assisted vulnerability coordination and current OT security needs. Broad claims about fully autonomous offensive effectiveness remain tied to the report's citations and are not promoted into verified project capability.", "id": "VAL-K05-007", "qualification": "Competition or laboratory results are not field performance, mission authority, or proof of operational deployment.", "reportId": "REP-K04-047", "result": "DEFENSIVE DIRECTION SUPPORTED; OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCE CLAIMS NOT FULLY REVALIDATED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-WH-GOLD-EAGLE-2026", "SRC-NIST-800-82R3" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Autonomous cyber warfare and critical physical infrastructure", "finding": "The report's IT/OT convergence, poisoning, management-plane, supply-chain, and recovery concerns inform K05 assurance claims and range scenarios.", "id": "VAL-K05-008", "qualification": "No source establishes that every human-in-the-loop process is obsolete or that a specific autonomous system is deployed and effective.", "reportId": "REP-K04-048", "result": "CYBER-PHYSICAL RISK MODEL RETAINED; NUMERICAL AND DEPLOYMENT CLAIMS SOURCE-BOUND", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-NIST-800-82R3", "SRC-NIST-800-207", "SRC-INL-CCE" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Autonomous drone-on-drone warfare and layered interception", "finding": "Runtime assurance, distributed coordination, sensor fusion, GPS-denied navigation, and layered low-collateral protection remain useful architecture concepts.", "id": "VAL-K05-009", "qualification": "DoDD 3000.09 applies within weapon-system scope and expressly excludes autonomous cyberspace capabilities and non-weapon autonomous systems; public content omits engagement procedures.", "reportId": "REP-K04-049", "result": "ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH RETAINED; FIELDING AND ENGAGEMENT CLAIMS NOT FULLY REVALIDATED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-DODD-3000-09" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Autonomous cyber-physical protection architecture for nuclear-powered datacenters", "finding": "K05 retains CCE, deterministic separation, bounded autonomy, power/cooling assurance, and recovery patterns. The NRC Part 53 and Part 73 Subpart J framework is recorded as final and codified in 2026.", "id": "VAL-K05-010", "qualification": "A reference architecture is not an approved security plan, license finding, or facility certification.", "reportId": "REP-K04-050", "result": "ARCHITECTURE RETAINED; ADVANCED-REACTOR SECURITY STATUS CORRECTED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-INL-CCE", "SRC-NIST-800-82R3", "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-SUBPART-J-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Nuclear-datacenter cyber architecture and regulatory mappings", "finding": "Current NIST OT and Zero Trust publications, NRC cyber requirements, Part 73 Subpart J, and the official NERC CIP catalog support the mapped control domains.", "id": "VAL-K05-011", "qualification": "Control relationships do not prove compliance; exact applicability depends on license basis, BES classification, architecture, contracts, and current text.", "reportId": "REP-K04-051", "result": "OFFICIAL FRAMEWORKS VERIFIED WITH FACILITY-SPECIFIC APPLICABILITY", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-NIST-800-82R3", "SRC-NIST-800-207", "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-54", "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-SUBPART-J-2026", "SRC-NERC-CIP-CATALOG-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "U.S. Army cyber-warfare organization and offense-defense integration", "finding": "Official Army pages support the public organizational and acquisition posture described in the report.", "id": "VAL-K05-012", "qualification": "Public articles do not establish classified mission details, program effectiveness, every budget claim, or fielded operational results.", "reportId": "REP-K04-052", "result": "OFFICIAL ARMY PUBLICATION VERIFIED; IMPLEMENTATION DEPTH NOT OBSERVED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-USAASC-PM-CW-2026", "SRC-USAASC-CYBER-WARFARE-2026" ] }, { "claimGroup": "Autonomous physical security for nuclear-powered datacenters", "finding": "K05 retains multi-sensor assurance, electromagnetic resilience, protected timing, physical delay, and evidence requirements while separating detection, restriction, mitigation, and force authorities.", "id": "VAL-K05-013", "qualification": "No general zero-guard, zero-latency, private counter-UAS, or autonomous lethal-force conclusion is adopted.", "reportId": "REP-K04-053", "result": "PROTECTION PROBLEM RETAINED; LEGAL AND REGULATORY CLAIMS NARROWED", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-55", "SRC-NRC-10CFR-73-SUBPART-J-2026", "SRC-FAA-CI-UAS-NPRM-2026", "SRC-USC-6-124N", "SRC-USC-47-333" ] }, { "claimGroup": "International cyber-defense strategies, persistent engagement, and deterrence by denial", "finding": "K05 preserves resilience, denial, continuous competition, escalation, and coalition concepts while marking non-U.S. current-law and current-policy propositions for separate official-source review.", "id": "VAL-K05-014", "qualification": "Budgets, organizational changes, doctrines, market forecasts, and 2026 events remain attributed research findings unless independently revalidated.", "reportId": "REP-K04-054", "result": "COMPARATIVE STRATEGY RETAINED; JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC CURRENTNESS INCOMPLETE", "sourceIds": [] }, { "claimGroup": "Corporate agentic defense and nuclear-powered compute", "finding": "Official sources support nuclear-compute activity and current federal AI-enabled vulnerability initiatives; K05 uses vendor-neutral control and evidence requirements rather than product endorsement.", "id": "VAL-K05-015", "qualification": "Vendor roadmaps, insurance effects, performance percentages, and claims of impenetrability are not adopted as verified project doctrine.", "reportId": "REP-K04-055", "result": "CONVERGENCE SUPPORTED; COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE CLAIMS SOURCE-BOUND", "sourceIds": [ "SRC-GOOGLE-KAIROS-2024", "SRC-CONSTELLATION-MICROSOFT-2024", "SRC-CONSTELLATION-META-2025", "SRC-WH-GOLD-EAGLE-2026", "SRC-NIST-800-207" ] } ]