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Weapons System Targeting Support — Governance

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05 · Governance & Compliance
Complete the DoDD 3000.09 documentation package
required
System classification, human-control description, intended engagements, test and verification artifacts, and senior-review package where applicable.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Align with the DoD AI Ethics Principles (responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, governable)
required
Formal assessment against the five principles adopted in February 2020.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Document Responsible AI Strategy and Implementation Pathway (RAI S&IP) alignment
recommended
The RAI S&IP is the DoD implementation framework behind the AI Ethics Principles — name the applicable lines of effort.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Complete the weapons-review legal assessment (DoDD 2311.01 / DoDI 5500.15)
required
Service-level legal review of the weapon or weapon-system modification before fielding.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Align with the DoD Law of War Manual (updated 2023)
required
The Manual is the authoritative US reading of LOAC and applies to AI-enabled targeting support.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Map ITAR Category IV and Category XII obligations
required
Missile/launch-vehicle (Cat IV) and sensors/targeting (Cat XII) obligations govern code, models, and documentation handling.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Confirm DFARS 252.204-7012 / NIST SP 800-171 controls on CUI in the pipeline
required
Controlled Unclassified Information protection across training data, labels, and model artifacts.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Achieve appropriate CMMC 2.0 level for supply-chain components
required
CMMC 2.0 Level 2 (Advanced) is the expected floor for defense industrial-base components handling CUI.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Confirm EAR posture for dual-use components
recommended
Dual-use components (commercial GPUs, general ML tooling) may fall under EAR with commodity classification consequences.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Document coalition releasability and REL-TO configuration
recommended
Deployable configuration by partner — Five Eyes, NATO, specific coalition — separately accredited.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Complete TE&E planning under DoD 5000.89
required
Test and Evaluation policy governing AI-enabled weapon-system evaluation, integrated with DOT&E oversight.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Independent verification and validation (IV&V) of ATR performance
required
Second-line or independent team validates ATR performance claims against a withheld classified test set.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Adversarial / deception testing against ATR
required
Camouflage, decoys, and adversarial-example testing against the fielded ATR under realistic conditions.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Failure-mode documentation and known-limitation disclosure
required
Known failure modes — sensor conditions, target variants, adversarial susceptibility — documented for the operator and the reviewer.
05 · Governance & Compliance
Maintain Political Declaration compliance artifacts
recommended
Measures aligning with the February 2023 DoD Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy.