The Sustainment Tail: Does Acquisition-Phase Architecture Choice Determine Decad

Foundational Research Chain

The foundational-research chain every candidate must produce before defense. This candidate is queued; each artifact appears here as its stage completes.

1. Prospectus & data-provenance charterStage 0

   Queued

2. Multi-perspective interrogation (mind-map, open questions, grounded claims)Stage 0.75

   Queued

3. Provenance-tagged research corpusPhase 1

   Queued

4. Dissertation (literature & PRISMA review, contribution, methods, results)Stages 1-6

   Queued

5. ARGOS citation auditArchivist gate

   Queued

6. Conclave defense deck (source; rendered .pptx on disk)Stage 8

   Queued

7. SuperStack prose-integrity reportProse gate

   Queued

Defense Readiness

ARGOS Citations (0)