Controlled Cryptographic Item Assembly

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Device embodying a cryptographic logic or other COMSEC design that NSA has approved as a Controlled Cryptographic Item (CCI). It performs the entire COMSEC function, but depends upon the host equipment to operate.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

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Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

Regulated95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Cui88%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Controlled Cryptographic Item Assemblies
possessive: Controlled Cryptographic Item Assembly's
pluralpossessive: Controlled Cryptographic Item Assemblies'

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