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[ Research Catalog ]

Every Project. Its Evidence. Its Actual Standing.

Thirty-five cataloged items across seven governance architectures, twelve hardware platforms, six software reference architectures, seven flagship simulations, and the publication record. Each card states what the item is, what evidence supports it, what its status label means, and what a reviewer should know before opening it. The complete 28-page technical catalog is available as a PDF, and the full index as CSV.

This catalog presents public-source, self-authored research artifacts. Evaluation is simulation-based unless explicitly stated otherwise. Hardware references are design specifications unless physical testing is specifically identified. The catalog does not represent official government endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.

Catalog status labels distinguish between operational physical hardware, browser-based simulations, formal models, reference designs, and future validation plans. A listed reference design should not be read as a certified product or fielded system.

AUTHREX-01ARCHITECTURE

SATA · Sensor & Actor Trust Assessment

CROSS-DOMAIN

Continuous sensor-trust scalar in [0,1] via weighted Dempster-Shafer fusion across internal consistency, cross-sensor agreement, temporal stability, and physical plausibility.

U.S. Provisional 64/002,453 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18936251

FORMAL MODEL + BROWSER-BASED SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-02ARCHITECTURE

HMAA · Human-Machine Authority Allocation

CROSS-DOMAIN

Graded four-level authority (A3-A0) with asymmetric hysteresis; TLA+ verified across 48,751 reachable states and 8 safety properties.

U.S. Provisional 63/999,105 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18861653

FORMAL MODEL + BROWSER-BASED SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-03ARCHITECTURE

ADARA · Adversarial Deception-Aware Reasoning

CROSS-DOMAIN

Deception prior P(adversarial) that adjusts authority downward when inputs are likely manipulated; separates honest confusion from hostile attack.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19043924

BROWSER-BASED SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-04ARCHITECTURE

MAIVA · Multi-Agent Integrity Voting

CROSS-DOMAIN

Byzantine-resilient consensus (3f+1) with CUSUM anomaly detection; a single compromised node cannot determine consensus alone.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19015517 · MIT license

FORMAL SPECIFICATION + SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-05ARCHITECTURE

FLAME · Forced Latency for Authority-Managed Escalation

CROSS-DOMAIN

Consequence-scaled mandatory deliberation window before irreversible action; five-state circuit breaker; fail-safe default on timeout is abort.

U.S. Provisional 64/005,607 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19015618

BROWSER-BASED SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-06ARCHITECTURE

CARA · Controlled Authority Recovery Architecture

CROSS-DOMAIN

Deterministic GREP-phase recovery to defined safe states with a terminal non-compensatory policy gate; verified by 10-million-iteration enumeration.

U.S. Provisional 64/000,170 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18917790

FORMAL ENUMERATION + SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

AUTHREX-07ARCHITECTURE

ERAM · Escalation Risk Assessment Model

CROSS-DOMAIN

Quantifies decision-time compression and cross-domain escalation cascades in AI-enabled command and control; 600 Monte Carlo runs.

SSRN ID 6176802 (working paper)

BROWSER-BASED SIMULATION

Single-author research; simulation and formal evidence only; not deployed.

BLADE-01HARDWARE

Rover Testbed

ROBOTICS TESTBED

Low-cost reference testbed for authority-governed autonomy; Raspberry Pi 5 + ESP32 running SATA-HMAA-CARA; 350 simulation runs, no unsafe actions in simulation.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19143190 · ~$484 BOM

DESIGN SPECIFICATION; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Build in progress; results to date are simulation outcomes.

BLADE-02HARDWARE

HMAA-UAV Platform

UAS TESTBED

Trust-governed flight autonomy; Cube Orange+ with Jetson Orin NX companion and MAVLink HIL bridge; 250 simulation runs across 5 adversarial scenarios.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19128769 · ~$4,200 BOM

DESIGN SPECIFICATION; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Build in progress; no flight testing performed.

BLADE-03HARDWARE

BLADE-EDGE

DIRECTED-ENERGY DEFENSE

Reference hardware instantiation of the full nine-module pipeline with a hardwired normally-open effector interlock; 72 components.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19177472 · ~$139K BOM

REFERENCE DESIGN ONLY; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Highest-cost platform; not built; MIL-STD-810G is a design target.

BLADE-04HARDWARE

BLADE-AV

AUTOMOTIVE DRIVE-BY-WIRE

Authority-governed drive-by-wire safety architecture; three-leg redundant fail-safe relay; 1,200 simulation runs, no unsafe actions in simulation.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19232130 · ~$16.3K BOM

SIMULATION-BASED EVALUATION; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

ISO 26262 ASIL-D is a target pathway, not a certification.

BLADE-05HARDWARE

BLADE-MARITIME

MARITIME SURVEILLANCE

Hydroacoustic sonar, magnetic anomaly detection, AIS spoofing detection; sea-state authority damping; 84 components, IP68 enclosure target.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19246785 · ~$43K BOM

REFERENCE DESIGN ONLY; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Design complete; not built.

BLADE-06HARDWARE

BLADE-INFRA

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ICS/SCADA

Protection node for power-grid, water, and pipeline operations; IEC 61850 GOOSE, Modbus, PROFINET; SIL-3 safety relay; 92 components.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19277887 · ~$11.6K BOM

REFERENCE DESIGN ONLY; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

SIL 3, NERC CIP, FIPS 140-2 are design targets.

BLADE-07HARDWARE

BLADE-SPACE

ORBITAL LEO AUTONOMY

Radiation-tolerant onboard authority under signal delay; RTG4 FPGA hot redundancy; 91 components; 15-document engineering package.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20183269 · ~$505K BOM

DESIGN SPECIFICATION ONLY

Earliest-maturity platform; V&V specified but not executed.

BLADE-08HARDWARE

BLADE-CUAS

COUNTER-UAS

Passive detection-to-authority governance across radar, RF, EO/IR, Remote ID, LIDAR; federal-to-SLTT handoff; ~75% reuse from BLADE-EDGE.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20299604 · ~$43.5K BOM

REFERENCE DESIGN ONLY; SIMULATION-BASED EVALUATION

Aligned with EO 14305 and FY26 NDAA; alignment is a research mapping.

BLADE-09HARDWARE

BLADE-AGENT-HSM

AGENTIC-AI ROOT OF TRUST

Tamper-evident hardware root of trust; non-exportable ECDSA keys in CC EAL6+ secure element; verified by adversarial emulator, 275/275 checks.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20299821 · ~$199 BOM

EMULATOR-VERIFIED DESIGN; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Silicon not built; emulator evidence only.

BLADE-10HARDWARE

BLADE-SWARM

ATTRITABLE SWARM AUTONOMY

BFT two-phase consensus across N = 10/50/500 agents; safe-halt-by-default under denied RF; TLA+ verified (5 safety, 3 liveness). Governs decision authority and audit, not weapons.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20351198 · ~$1,333/node

SIMULATION-BASED EVALUATION; PHYSICAL VALIDATION PENDING

Testbed at TRL 2; consensus results are simulation outcomes.

BLADE-11HARDWARE

BLADE-INFRA-OT

IT/OT BOUNDARY GOVERNANCE

Fail-closed, bump-in-the-wire appliance adjudicating each cross-boundary command across four OT regimes; malformed input fails closed.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20342067 · 1U appliance

REFERENCE DESIGN ONLY; SIMULATION-BASED EVALUATION

Not deployed in any facility.

BLADE-12HARDWARE

BLADE-FINANCE

FINANCIAL-SECTOR AI

Authority arbitration routing each transaction to clearance, review, confirmation, or hold; retrospective swarm-review for low-and-slow activity.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20374692 · ~$9,228 BOM

SIMULATION-BASED EVALUATION (SYNTHETIC DATA ONLY)

Synthetic data only; not deployed in any institution.

SW-01SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-AGENT

AGENTIC AI

Authority-lifecycle shim wrapping any LLM-based agent runtime; T3-T0 gating, per-tool HKDF tokens, spawn quorum, injection-collapsing input trust.

15-section specification + working simulator · hardware companion DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20299821

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SW-02SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-ASSURE

PRE-DEPLOYMENT ASSURANCE

An assurance gate a system must clear before it is permitted to act; addresses the validation gap named in the 2026 National Cybersecurity Strategy.

Specification + governor console

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SW-03SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-ICS-GATE

OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Gates AI actions across the IT/OT boundary; authorizes deterministic safety logic and does not make the safety decision itself.

Specification + governor console

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SW-04SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-AGENT-CYBER

CYBER DEFENSE

Constrains what a defensive cyber-reasoning agent may do and when; treats the agent as a black box; governance only, no offensive function.

Specification + governor console

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SW-05SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-SPACECYBER

ORBITAL

Gates autonomous spacecraft actions under intermittent ground contact; companion to BLADE-SPACE.

Specification + governor console

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SW-06SOFTWARE

AUTHREX-SANDBOX

TEST & EVALUATION

Governs what an AI under evaluation is permitted to do inside a test environment; aligned with NDAA Sections 1533 and 1534.

Specification + governor console

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Single-author research; not deployed in any production environment.

SIM-01SIMULATION

ERAM Strategic Command

ESCALATION RISK / C2

Six scenarios, 600 Monte Carlo runs, formal property verification, Merkle provenance; models cross-domain escalation cascades.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: ERAM · SATA · FLAME · CARA

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-02SIMULATION

APEX JADC2 Theater

JOINT ALL-DOMAIN C2

Full seven-framework pipeline with PBFT consensus and a Merkle audit trail in a theater-level scenario.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: All seven frameworks

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-03SIMULATION

MDO Digital Twin

MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS

Air, maritime, and kinetic lanes with Byzantine fault isolation.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: HMAA · CARA · MAIVA

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-04SIMULATION

Tactical COP

FRATRICIDE PREVENTION

Blue-on-blue interdiction via a common operating picture.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: HMAA · CARA · SATA · ADARA

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-05SIMULATION

AUTHREX OS

DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE

Distributed Web Worker nodes, common operating picture, analytics, Merkle audit.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: All seven frameworks

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-06SIMULATION

Distributed Kernel

CONSENSUS MESH

Actor-model mesh with PBFT consensus and an emergent interlock.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: MAIVA · CARA

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

SIM-07SIMULATION

Tactical Core

KINEMATICS & TERMINATION

Zero-dependency kinematic engine with flight-termination authority.

Client-side, seeded PRNG; bit-exact reproducible · frameworks: HMAA · CARA

BROWSER-BASED DEMONSTRATION

Demonstrates governance logic under seeded scenarios; does not prove field performance, hardware timing, or resistance to a live adversary.

EVID-01PUBLICATION

Open-Access Corpus · 33 Public Works

ALL DOMAINS

Eighteen Zenodo deposits with registered DOIs and fifteen SSRN working papers, with source code under MIT and CC BY 4.0. Public disclosures with permanent identifiers; not peer-reviewed venues.

Zenodo + SSRN + ORCID 0009-0001-8573-1667

PUBLISHED / DISCLOSED

Independent third-party citation is currently limited; peer-reviewed submission is on the roadmap.

EVID-02PUBLICATION

Provisional Patent Applications (4)

IP

HMAA 63/999,105 · CARA 64/000,170 · SATA 64/002,453 · FLAME 64/005,607, all filed March 2026 with USPTO receipts. Unexamined filings, not granted patents; conversion window to approximately March 2027.

USPTO Patent Center

PROVISIONAL; PENDING USPTO ACTION

Provisional applications establish priority; they are not granted patents.

EVID-03PUBLICATION

Technical Reference Series · 10 Volumes

REFERENCE

The Authority Equation (3), The Authority Discipline (4), Autonomous Authority (3), published under the Authority & Architecture imprint; ISBNs via Bowker; Volume I carries LCCN 2026912260.

LCCN 2026912260 · Bowker ISBNs

PUBLISHED

Book series is technical reference material, not peer-reviewed literature.

[ Evidence Catalog ]

What Each Evidence Class Supports, and What It Does Not

EVIDENCE TYPEWHAT IT ISSUPPORTSDOES NOT PROVE
Zenodo deposits (18)Architecture and platform specifications, BOMs, codePublic disclosure, priority, reproducibilityField performance, certification
SSRN working papers (15)Frameworks and policy analysis incl. ERAMPublic disclosure with permanent IDsPeer review
TLA+ verification (HMAA)48,751 reachable states, 8 safety propertiesFormal correctness of the authority state machineCorrectness of other frameworks; hardware timing
Provisional patents (4)SATA, HMAA, CARA, FLAME filingsPriority dates and USPTO receiptsGranted patent rights
Browser simulations (19)Seeded, client-side, reproducibleGovernance logic behavior under scenariosResistance to a live adversary; hardware behavior
Reference designs (12)BOM-level hardware packagesBuildability analysis and cost baselinesBuilt hardware; measured interlock behavior
[ Research Maturity Matrix ]

Status, Limitation, Next Validation Step

ITEMRESEARCH STATUSEVIDENCELIMITATIONNEXT VALIDATION STEP
AUTHREX pipeline (7 architectures)Formal model + browser-based simulationDOIs, TLA+ (HMAA), seeded simsSimulation and formal evidence onlyFPGA bitstream + hardware-in-the-loop
BLADE hardware platforms (12)Reference design / design specificationZenodo deposits, full BOMsNot built; no physical testingBuild Rover and UAV testbeds first
Software reference architectures (6)Reference architectureSpecifications + governor consolesNot deployed in productionIndependent red-team evaluation
Simulation portfolio (19)Browser-based demonstrationSeeded, bit-exact reproducible runsNot validated against operational dataSensitivity analysis; peer review
Publications and IPPublished / disclosedDOI, SSRN, USPTO receipts, LCCNNot peer-reviewed venuesPeer-reviewed submission; patent conversion by Mar 2027
[ Reviewer Navigation ]

Start Here, by Audience

[ DEFENSE PROGRAM MANAGERS ]

Start with the Executive Overview and System Boundary in the PDF catalog, then BLADE-EDGE and BLADE-CUAS cards above, then run the APEX JADC2 Theater simulation. The program white paper states the proposed physical validation campaign.

[ TECHNICAL REVIEWERS ]

Start with the HMAA deposit (TLA+ verification, 48,751 states) and the Rover Testbed package, then the Risk and Limitation Assessment in the PDF. Every simulation is seeded for bit-exact reproduction; verify one independently before reading further.

[ CYBER REVIEWERS ]

Start with AUTHREX-AGENT and BLADE-AGENT-HSM, then the AUTHREX-AGENT-CYBER card, then run the AGENT governor console. Alignment references: CISA/NSA/Five Eyes agentic-AI guidance and FY26 NDAA Sections 1513 and 6601.

[ SPACE REVIEWERS ]

Start with BLADE-SPACE (15-document engineering package) and AUTHREX-SPACECYBER, then the orbital scenario in the Operational Domains section of the main site. Note: BLADE-SPACE V&V is specified but not executed.

[ MARITIME REVIEWERS ]

Start with BLADE-MARITIME (sea-state authority damping, acoustic-delay-aware consensus), then the MDO Digital Twin simulation's maritime lane and the maritime mission panel on the main site.

Machine-readable project data is embedded in this page as JSON (view source, #catData) and mirrored in the CSV index. Missing or unverifiable links are marked Needs verification in the source data.