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      "section": "Section 1.1(a)-(b) — Applicability and exclusions",
      "supports": "The directive applies to autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems and expressly excludes autonomous or semi-autonomous cyberspace capabilities and systems that are not weapon systems.",
      "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/300009p.PDF"
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      "section": "Section 1.2(a) — Weapon-system policy",
      "supports": "Within its weapon-system scope, the directive requires appropriate human judgment, rigorous verification and validation, realistic test and evaluation, robustness, transparency, auditability, and bounded engagement behavior.",
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  "currentness": "Official directive reviewed on 2026-08-15; applicability exclusions in section 1.1(b) are material to every K05 mapping.",
  "currentnessStatus": "Official directive reviewed on 2026-08-15; applicability exclusions in section 1.1(b) are material to every K05 mapping.",
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  "note": "Official policy for autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems. The directive expressly excludes autonomous or semi-autonomous cyberspace capabilities, unarmed platforms, and autonomous systems that are not weapon systems; its weapon-system V&V, testing, human-judgment, abort, and audit provisions must not be silently generalized into a cyber-defense compliance claim.",
  "publicationDate": "2023-01-25",
  "publicationStatus": "Department of Defense Directive",
  "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense",
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  "title": "DoD Directive 3000.09 — Autonomy in Weapon Systems",
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  "version": "DoDD 3000.09, January 25, 2023"
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