key resource

nounverified·updated Oct 6, 2026

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A publicly or privately controlled asset necessary to sustain continuity of government and/or economic operations, or an asset that is of great historical significance.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

Ddorianclast reviewed —

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

Sensitivity

Regulated68%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: key resources
possessive: key resource's
pluralpossessive: key resources'

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