The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Foundry Build and Readiness documents builds in Nexus Foundry: what was built, its tests and reviews, and the readiness evidence for its intended use.
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Foundry Build and Readiness is the Nexus Reports series on technical build and readiness evidence from Nexus Foundry projects. Contributions come from platforms such as Nexus Foundry. Editors follow the series method, and each edition is listed with its date, method and version history once released; a planned edition is never shown as published.
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Editions describe build provenance, test coverage, security and assurance review, and the limits of the build's validated use.
| Element | In this series |
|---|---|
| Unit of analysis | A Foundry build or release |
| Method | Build provenance, test and review records, assurance cases |
Each edition is listed with its date, method and version history. A planned edition is never shown as released.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Technology readiness level | A scale from basic principles to proven operation that describes how mature a technology is. |
| Software bill of materials | A machine-readable inventory of the components and dependencies in a piece of software, in formats such as SPDX or CycloneDX. |
| Acceptance criteria | The stated conditions a deliverable must meet before the client accepts it. |
| Editorial independence | The condition in which editors decide what is published on the validity and relevance of the work, free from interference by owners, funders or sponsors, as ICMJE and COPE guidance describe it. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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