K05 assurance architecture

Readiness

Direct answer

K05 readiness is evidence-governed. States advance only when a declared evidence-sufficiency rule is met and automatically degrade when required evidence becomes stale, unavailable, contradicted, or materially defective.

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.

Readiness state sequence

  1. DESCRIBED
  2. ARCHITECTED
  3. PROTOTYPED
  4. IMPLEMENTED
  5. TESTED
  6. INTEGRATED
  7. DEPLOYED
  8. OPERATING
  9. DEGRADED
  10. SUSPENDED
  11. RETIRED
  12. UNKNOWN
  13. UNAVAILABLE
  14. STALE

Evidence sufficiency rule

A capability cannot enter or retain DEPLOYED or OPERATING solely because code, a model, a diagram, a signed artifact, or a range result exists. The claim requires exact deployment identity, current authority, operating observation, incidents, restoration, open defeaters, and verification state.

Inspect the evidence model