{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "sectors": [
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA1",
      "canonical_name": "Population Health Innovations and Clinical Research",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "care"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P5",
          "final_tier": "B",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; delivery through health, with public/service demand validation.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Population-health proxy plus pediatric/allergy strands; does not claim complete clinical-research coverage.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA2",
      "canonical_name": "Power Electronics, Advanced Packaging, and Grid Management Systems",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "power"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P2",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        },
        {
          "candidate_id": "P2-T",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "N"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; deliver narrow power/packaging work and assess grid capability separately.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Broad electrical/energy engineering proxy; topic strengths identify power-electronics niches separately.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA3",
      "canonical_name": "Next Generation Transportation and Logistics Systems",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "move"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P4a",
          "final_tier": "B",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; freight delivery is conditional on anchors, alignment and validated readiness.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Transportation/automotive publication proxy; operational logistics also overlaps ARA7.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA4",
      "canonical_name": "Materials Engineering Applications",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "power"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P6",
          "final_tier": "not headline",
          "final_eligible": "N",
          "final_headline": "N"
        },
        {
          "candidate_id": "P6-FQ",
          "final_tier": "not headline",
          "final_eligible": "N",
          "final_headline": "N"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector with its own broad assessment and narrow materials work through power; no seventh delivery bet is inferred or required.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Materials remains a sector with its own evidence and candidate assessment. Power packaging and narrow ferroelectric/quantum strands do not exhaust it.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA5",
      "canonical_name": "Precision Agriculture",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "grow"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P3",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        },
        {
          "candidate_id": "P3-IW",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "N"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; crop delivery includes separately identified precision, water and insect/weed strands.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Expanded crop/plant/insect/soil and water proxy; water is an application adjacency, not evidence that every water study is precision agriculture.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA6",
      "canonical_name": "Food Production and Integrative Health",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "feed"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P1",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; food delivery retains integrative-health links without merging denominators.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Food/animal/aquatic science plus nutrition. Delivery feed is narrower; integrative-health strands remain visible in the parent sector.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA7",
      "canonical_name": "Supply Chain, Retail, and Consumer Analytics",
      "strategic_status": "retained",
      "delivery_bets": [
        "supply"
      ],
      "candidate_assessments": [
        {
          "candidate_id": "P4b",
          "final_tier": "A",
          "final_eligible": "Y",
          "final_headline": "Y"
        }
      ],
      "disposition": "Retained strategic sector; OR/MIS delivery is narrower than retail and consumer analytics; private demand requires direct validation.",
      "definition_status": "provisional analyst proxy; sector names authoritative",
      "scope_note": "Includes marketing and information systems alongside operations research and statistics/probability. Broad sector is preserved rather than replacing retail/consumer analytics with an academic niche.",
      "source": "data/st-plan/area-definitions.json; arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md"
    }
  ]
}