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DACS Executive Overview

Evidence and authority for material business decisions

Based on v0.7 Release Candidate (October 2, 2026) | Proposed executive-language revision for DVA review

Founding Authors & Committee Leads: Daniel Linstedt and Cindi Meyersohn

Your systems produced the answer. Can your organization stand behind the decision?

Most organizations can explain how reports, analytics, AI, and automated processes contributed to an important decision. The harder question is whether the information behind that decision was appropriate, sufficiently supported, and authorized for use at the time. DACS defines how to test those requirements and what supporting records to preserve, so the organization can explain its actions later.

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