DARPA Program Manager
You need to know if this fits a BAA, if it's technically sound, and if the team can execute. You're evaluating against the Heilmeier Catechism whether you're reading it or not.
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Federal Program Reviewer
You need to evaluate the three Dhanasar prongs: substantial merit and national importance, well-positioned petitioner, and waiver benefit. Every claim must be independently verifiable.
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Defense Contractor / Prime
Shield AI, Anduril, Skydio, L3Harris, General Atomics, Northrop, Boeing. You're evaluating whether AUTHREX integrates with your autonomy stack and whether it solves a DoDD 3000.09 compliance problem.
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Automotive / ASIL-D Team
Mobileye, Tesla, Waymo, Tier 1 suppliers. You need a formal safety governance framework that passes ISO 26262 ASIL-D review, not probabilistic confidence scores that don't bound failure probability.
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Think Tank / Policy Researcher
CSIS, Hudson, CNAS, FDD, RAND, MITRE. You're interested in the policy dimension: AI governance, escalation risk, human command authority, DoDD 3000.09 interpretation.
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Academic Peer / Reviewer
You're peer-reviewing a paper, evaluating a conference submission, or looking at this for a collaboration. You want the formal specs, the TLA+ proofs, and the experimental protocols.
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Investor / SBIR Reviewer
You want to see the commercialization path, TRL assessment, and realistic cost/timeline to deployment. Heilmeier questions 6-9 matter most to you.
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Just Curious / General Visitor
You saw this linked somewhere, or you're researching AI governance generally. You want a clear explanation of what this is and why it matters, in plain English.
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