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Circular command loop from sense to fuse, understand, predict, recommend, human authorise, act, assess and learn.
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Human-commanded multi-domain architecture

Consequential decisions remain under accountable human authority.

This page makes the authority boundary explicit: systems may sense, fuse, predict and recommend, but the loop cannot close around a consequential decision without authorised human judgement.

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Public architecture

What this page establishes

Public material describes roles, interfaces and governance boundaries without unsupported operational claims.

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Defined authority

Roles, permissions and mission boundaries must be established before tasking begins, with no public claim of unrestricted autonomy.

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Visible escalation

Ambiguity, policy limits and confidence thresholds route to human review rather than disappearing into an automated decision.

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Decision record

The evidence chain links what was sensed, what was recommended, who authorised the action and what followed.

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Review and learning

Outcomes can inform engineering analysis, but changes still pass independent verification and human approval before deployment.

Human command loop

Authorisation closes the loop
Human command operating loop A circular sequence moves from Sense through Fuse, Understand, Predict and Recommend to a distinct human Authorise gate, then Act, Assess and Learn. The loop cannot close without human authorisation. SENSE FUSE UNDERSTAND PREDICT RECOMMEND AUTHORISEHUMAN GATE ACT ASSESS LEARN ACCOUNTABLE COMMAND THE LOOP CANNOT CLOSE WITHOUT HUMAN AUTHORISATION Human command loop, vertical layout Sense, Fuse, Understand, Predict and Recommend lead to a human Authorise gate, followed by Act, Assess and Learn. A return line shows the governed loop. RETURN ONLY AFTER HUMAN GATE SENSE FUSE UNDERSTAND PREDICT RECOMMEND AUTHORISEHUMAN / NON-BYPASSABLE ACT ASSESS LEARN NO AUTHORISATION / NO CLOSED LOOP
Sense, Fuse, Understand, Predict and Recommend support accountable judgement. The loop proceeds through Act, Assess and Learn only after the distinct human Authorise gate; it cannot close without that approval.

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