{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "as_of": "2026-10-25",
  "status": "Proposed validation register; no partner endorsements or completed interviews inferred",
  "purpose": "Preserve ARA/TEConomy strategic evidence while specifying the current problem and access evidence needed for each application",
  "rules": [
    "A sector match or nearby headquarters is alignment evidence, not proof of project demand",
    "Commercial and public/provider/community users are equally valid problem-owner routes",
    "A historical award establishes a precedent, not current partner consent or project success",
    "All seven ARA growth areas remain visible; proposed applications and narrow topic signals have separate definitions",
    "No public per-person data, rankings or small-cell disclosures",
    "No recommendation to allocate state resources"
  ],
  "records": [
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA1",
      "canonical_name": "Population Health Innovations and Clinical Research",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported leading research and significant immediate health-market potential",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA1",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "care"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Provider or community organization, with clinical/research hosts",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "A specific rural access, maternal-care or behavioral-health implementation problem",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Consented clinical/community data, protocol, feasible setting and provider adoption decision",
      "observable_next_result": "A supported feasibility or implementation pilot; statewide health outcomes remain context",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA2",
      "canonical_name": "Power Electronics, Advanced Packaging, and Grid Management Systems",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported leading research and significant immediate market potential",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA2",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "power"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Power-module, equipment or grid user; facility host",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "An agreed device, packaging, reliability or grid-interface test",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Fabrication/test access, secure device/control data, validated technical roles and a performance criterion",
      "observable_next_result": "A completed partner test and repeat usable facility access; device-topic evidence does not certify broad grid capability",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA3",
      "canonical_name": "Next Generation Transportation and Logistics Systems",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported established capability, significant industry base and moderate near-term opportunity",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA3",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "move"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Freight, fleet, logistics or distribution operator",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "An operational routing, fleet or last-mile problem",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Permitted operational-data access, testbed, baseline and accepted project roles",
      "observable_next_result": "A joint operational test and delivered work packages; award value alone does not demonstrate delivery",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA4",
      "canonical_name": "Materials Engineering Applications",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported established/emerging capability with market potential varying by application and a longer horizon",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA4",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "power"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Materials/fabrication hosts and a user in power, health, food or agriculture",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "A materials application matched to the existing cross-campus community",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Current willing team, characterization/fabrication access, relevant samples/data and a technical milestone",
      "observable_next_result": "A shared cross-area pilot; the broad materials sector remains strategic when a stand-alone topic lacks an anchor",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA5",
      "canonical_name": "Precision Agriculture",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported established capability and moderate near-term agriculture opportunity",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA5",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "grow"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Grower, water-user, extension or agricultural technology partner",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "A crop, sensing, irrigation or aquifer decision with an identified user",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Named field/monitoring asset, observation permissions, seasonal baseline and an agreed test",
      "observable_next_result": "A completed field observation/test and user disposition; growth in a topic alone does not establish grower need",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA6",
      "canonical_name": "Food Production and Integrative Health",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported established capability, significant industry base and immediate food opportunity",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA6",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "feed"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Food/poultry/aquaculture firm or public research user",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "A food safety, production, aquaculture or integrative-health test",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Named consenting problem owner, permitted sample/production data access and redundant contacts",
      "observable_next_result": "A repeat partner project using a test result; USDA award counts remain incomplete until the new pull",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    },
    {
      "sector_id": "ARA7",
      "canonical_name": "Supply Chain, Retail, and Consumer Analytics",
      "strategic_evidence": {
        "source": "arkansas-reference/ara-growth-areas.md §3.2, §3.3",
        "status": "Source-reported TEConomy August 2024 assessment; not a newly verified current demand measure",
        "assessment": "Source-reported significant private-led investment and immediate market potential",
        "basis": [
          "University research and active grant analysis",
          "Industry cluster employment and growth",
          "Patents and investment indicators",
          "Advisory input and interviews"
        ]
      },
      "current_supply_source": "data/st-plan/plan-evidence.json areas.ARA7",
      "delivery_application_ids": [
        "supply"
      ],
      "prospective_problem_owner_type": "Supply-chain, retail or consumer-analytics organization",
      "partner_consent_status": "Not established; no firm, provider or community endorsement inferred",
      "need_to_validate": "An operational or consumer-analytics decision in the broad area",
      "access_and_capability_to_validate": "Permitted commercial/consumer data, privacy/security conditions, agreed benchmark and accepted research role",
      "observable_next_result": "A usable data agreement followed by an operational test; publications miss proprietary work and do not measure sponsored funding",
      "proposed_validation_owner": "ARA with relevant campus hosts, AEDC and prospective commercial/provider/community partners",
      "owner_acceptance_status": "Not yet recorded",
      "due": "Consultation April-June 2027; verified disposition with October 2027 decisions",
      "evidence_status": "Needs validation; strategic study evidence is available but project-specific commitment is unverified",
      "baseline": null,
      "decision_trigger": "Proceed to a supported project only when the problem owner, usable capability/access, delivery owner and observable result are accepted; otherwise revise, defer or define a capability-building milestone",
      "enabling_capability_ids": [
        "AI_ML",
        "DATA_ANALYTICS",
        "CYBER_TRUST"
      ],
      "capability_map_source": "data/st-plan/capability-map.json"
    }
  ]
}