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
- DESCRIBED
- ARCHITECTED
- PROTOTYPED
- IMPLEMENTED
- TESTED
- INTEGRATED
- DEPLOYED
- OPERATING
- DEGRADED
- SUSPENDED
- RETIRED
- UNKNOWN
- UNAVAILABLE
- 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.