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Seven operational governance architectures forming the AUTHREX stack. Each addresses a specific layer of the authority lifecycle: trust attestation, authority computation, deception filtering, multi-agent consensus, deliberation latency, recovery, and escalation risk.
Hardware-anchored τ-chain protocol producing continuous sensor trust scalar via Dempster-Shafer fusion.
Four-level authority computation (A3-A0) with asymmetric hysteresis: immediate downgrade, 5-15s delayed upgrade.
Computes P(adversarial) from cross-sensor consistency and temporal anomalies before swarm aggregation.
Byzantine fault-tolerant multi-agent consensus with CUSUM-augmented anomaly detection across 3f+1 agents.
Mandatory deliberation windows preventing safety-critical actions without sustained authority.
Deterministic GREP-phase recovery: Govern → Restrict → Execute → Persist, with mutual exclusion.
Escalation risk quantification for AI-enabled command-and-control decision compression across C2 environments.
Twelve physical research platforms at increasing capability, from the rover and UAV testbeds through the ten BLADE governance nodes, demonstrating cross-domain portability across ten domains.
37 components. SATA-HMAA-CARA pipeline. 350 simulation runs, TLA+ verified (48,751 states).
52 components. MAVLink/HIL bridge for Cube Orange+. 250 simulation runs across 5 adversarial scenarios.
72 components. Defense-grade DEW governance. Dual Jetson AGX Orin + dual Zynq UltraScale+, MIL-STD-810G.
62 components. 9-module pipeline, ARS540 radar, OS1-64 LiDAR, ISO 26262 ASIL-D.
84 components. Hydroacoustic sonar, MAD, AIS spoofing detection, IP68, MIL-STD-810G.
92 components. ICS/SCADA (IEC 61850, Modbus), SIL 3, NERC CIP, FIPS 140-2 L3.
91 components. LEO 400-1200 km governance node. RTG4 FPGA + Aitech SBC hot redundancy, 30 krad TID, NASA SBIR EXPAND.3.S26B aligned.
Counter-UAS authority governance node. Four-tier HMAA federal-SLTT handoff, Dempster-Shafer multi-modal consensus, ECDSA P-256 court-admissible evidence chain. Aligned with EO 14305 and the FY26 NDAA Safer Skies Act.
Tamper-evident hardware root of trust for autonomous AI agents; hardware companion to the AUTHREX-AGENT software shim. Non-exportable ECDSA keys (SE051 EAL6+), TPM 2.0 tier state, tamper-evident audit ledger. Aligned with CISA/NSA agentic-AI guidance and FY26 NDAA Sec. 1513/6601.
Authority governance for attritable autonomous swarms at N=10/50/500. Byzantine-fault-tolerant sub-quorum consensus gated by SATA/HMAA/MAIVA, per-node ECDSA P-256 distributed audit ledger, TLA+ verified (5 safety, 3 liveness). Aligned with DoDD 3000.09, FY26 NDAA, NIST AI RMF.
Authority-governed, fail-closed IT/OT bridge for cross-boundary OT command adjudication. AUTHREX adjudicates each cross-boundary command to propagate, hold, or isolate across four OT authority regimes; dual Xilinx Kria K26 governance and network planes; seed-deterministic SHA-256 audit ledger. Aligned with NIST SP 800-82, ISA/IEC 62443, NERC CIP.
Authority-governed, software-enforced arbitration for financial-sector AI decision systems. AUTHREX routes each transaction to autonomous clearance, supervised review, elevated confirmation, or manual hold across a four-tier HMAA model; eight-stage pipeline; SHA-256 canonical-form evidence chain; retrospective swarm-review module. Aligned with the U.S. Treasury FS AI RMF, NIST AI RMF, and EO 14179.
Companion software authority-governance layer published on the AUTHREX Systems venture site. Reference architectures (TRL 3-4), single-author research, not deployed; several are software companions to the BLADE hardware platforms.
Six software authority-governance systems on the AUTHREX Systems venture site.
Nineteen browser-based simulations with seeded PRNG for bit-exact reproducibility. G*Power justified sample sizes, 2,800+ experimental runs.
Real-time authority computation engine with trust-proportional tiering and hysteresis.
Open Simulation →Dempster-Shafer sensor trust fusion with cross-sensor validation.
Open Simulation →Four-phase deterministic recovery protocol with mutual exclusion.
Open Simulation →Byzantine fault-tolerant multi-agent trust consensus.
Open Simulation →Mandatory deliberation windows with 5-state circuit breaker.
Open Simulation →Adversarial deception detection via cross-sensor anomaly correlation.
Open Simulation →Escalation risk assessment for human-machine command authority.
Open Simulation →Space-edge governance node with rad-tolerant hot-redundant compute (TRL 2-3).
Open Simulation →Counter-UAS authority governance: 9-stage AUTHREX pipeline, four-tier HMAA federal-SLTT handoff, Dempster-Shafer consensus across radar, RF, EO/IR, Remote ID, LIDAR.
Open Simulation →Adversarial high-assurance emulator for the hardware root of trust that anchors autonomous AI agents: five-opcode ABI, TPM PCR bank, tamper cascade, 275/275 checks.
Open Simulation →Authority-governed decentralized swarm consensus parameterised over N=10/50/500: Byzantine-fault-tolerant two-phase commit gated by SATA/HMAA/MAIVA, five scenarios, hash-chained distributed audit ledger.
Open Simulation →Deterministic cross-boundary IT/OT command adjudication: four OT authority regimes, fail-closed malformed-input handling, Byzantine forged-authority injection, clock drift, operator-clearance delay, and a seed-deterministic SHA-256 hash-chained audit ledger with chain verification.
Open Simulation →Deterministic, offline simulator for authority-governed financial-sector AI decisions. Eight-stage AUTHREX pipeline, four-tier HMAA, six scenarios including deepfake authentication, AI-agent coordinated attack, and a low-and-slow ring recovered by retrospective Swarm Review. Real SHA-256, Wilson-interval triage metrics, nine self-tests. Synthetic data only.
Open Simulation →Source code, datasets, and build artifacts for every architecture and hardware platform. MIT and CC BY 4.0 licensed.
Source code for the real-time authority computation engine.
Open Repository →Hardware-anchored sensor trust fusion implementation.
Open Repository →Space-edge governance node engineering package (15 engineering design documents + 21-file ZIP). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20183269.
Open Repository →Counter-UAS authority governance node: emulator, paper, ICD, hardware files, and validation artifacts. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20299604.
Open Repository →Hardware root of trust reference design, emulator, ICD, BOM, and validation suite for autonomous AI agents. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20299821.
Open Repository →Attritable swarm authority governance: working paper, browser simulator, TLA+ specification, verification report, hardware files, and BOM. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20351198.
Open Repository →Authority-governed IT/OT bridge: deterministic OT-bridge governance simulator, electrical design schematic, reference appliance rendering, bill of materials, and configuration metadata. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20342067.
Open Repository →Financial-sector AI governance node: deterministic governance simulator, research paper, electrical design schematic, reference appliance rendering, bill of materials, and configuration metadata. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20374692.
Open Repository →Standalone portfolio pages covering documentation, verification, and supporting material for the proposed research endeavor.
Full Dhanasar framework analysis: Prong 1 (Substantial Merit), Prong 2 (Well Positioned), Prong 3 (National Benefit).
Open Endeavor →Evidence cards, professional background (7 roles), academic training (3 degrees, 2 STEM).
Open Credentials →Six independent citations: Joey Hernandez / Pomona College (The Cascade Protocol book, May 2026), University of Toronto LexAI, Colombia Ministries of Defense, SSRN Community (Elsevier), Wargaming Weekly, Haberler.com.
Open Impact →140+ professional credentials from 25+ institutions. IEEE, AIAA, ACM, AAAI, INFORMS, NDIA, Sigma Beta Delta + 12 Developer Communities.
Open Certifications →Central index of all 14 code repositories across architectures and hardware platforms.
Open Repository Index →Formal evaluation protocol for the 19 simulations. Seeded PRNG, 2,800+ runs, G*Power justified sample sizes.
Open Evaluation →Two-page professional resume with all 7 jobs, publications, third-party recognition, and technical competencies.
Download Resume ↓Ten-volume technical reference series across three book trilogies. ISBNs registered through Bowker. The Authority Equation Volume I assigned Library of Congress Control Number 2026912260.
View Imprint Catalog ↗Quick routing for defense program managers, federal program reviewers, and researchers to the most relevant parts of the portfolio.
Open Page →Direct answers to the nine questions DARPA uses to evaluate research proposals, applied to the AUTHREX program.
Open Catechism →Maps AUTHREX governance components to DO-178C, DO-333, and related assurance and safety standards.
Open Mapping →APA, BibTeX, IEEE, and Chicago citation formats for the AUTHREX research portfolio.
Open Citations →All sections available on the main portfolio page (index.html). Click any to jump directly to that section.
Summary of the three Dhanasar prongs with evidence bullet points.
Jump to Endeavor →Compact promo card linking to full Credentials page.
Jump to Evidence →Table mapping specific problems to architectures that solve them.
Jump to Impact →Overview of the integrated AUTHREX research platform.
Jump to AUTHREX →Technology Readiness Level classification for each artifact.
Jump to TRL →Maps AUTHREX terms to standard academic equivalents.
Jump to Terminology →Demonstrates portability across defense and civilian domains.
Jump to Dual-Use →Summary of professional memberships and credentials.
Jump to Certifications →Past and upcoming industry conferences and societies.
Jump to Engagement →Third-party citations and recognition summary.
Jump to Impact Section →External research profile links (ORCID, Scholar, SSRN, etc).
Jump to Profiles →All research output: 18 Zenodo deposits with DOIs (CC BY 4.0) and 15 SSRN papers on AI governance, escalation risk, and national security. SSRN Author Rank 15,210 of 2,727,789 (top 0.56%); 7,836 cumulative downloads.
Architecture papers, hardware platform papers, and testbed papers. All CC BY 4.0 licensed with permanent DOIs.
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Verified researcher identity linking publications, patents, and institutional affiliation. ORCID 0009-0001-8573-1667.
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View Scholar ↗Policy and strategic research papers on AI governance, escalation risk, and national security.
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