Changelog

Nodes, not fields

An indicator is a node at level 5, with a parent, a place in the tree and a record of its own — not a list embedded in the capability's text. It follows that the CSV and JSON exports carry indicators as rows and nested objects like every other level, the detail box opens them, and each one names the capability it measures in its classification path. All 778 carry pending identifiers until master codes are assigned.

Where the layer is empty

Ten capabilities carry no indicator yet, and the empty set is deliberate rather than an oversight: it records that no clear standard measure has been identified. They cluster where the framework holds capabilities that states do not publish — the intelligence disciplines, nuclear command and control, mediation, and the largely intangible AI applications node.

Documents

The indicators live inside each release document in versions — every capability's indicators array holds them as level-5 nodes. No separate indicator file is published, because the seed is part of v0.1, not an appendix to it.

Regime neutrality, solved by structure

Political stability, policy predictability, corruption prevalence, trust in institutions and the rule-of-law composite itself were held as v0.0 capabilities. All five demote to the performance and position layers of named machinery, where the leading measurement programmes are cited rather than replicated. The framework records whether institutions exist and function; the contested normative judgements live at the position layer. This is the only domain whose entire group skeleton carries — it mirrored the external measurement regimes and was sound; the restructuring happens at capability level.

The framework's most conspicuous absences, filled

• Electoral Management & Integrity and Legislature & Deliberative Institutions — the framework held no electoral or parliamentary capability anywhere, despite election quality and legislative constraint being core constructs of every external programme.
• Legal Identity & Civil Registration — the registries beneath every election, tax, entitlement and statistic.
• Statistical & Data Capability — the state's capacity to know its own country, deferred here by the economic release, and the base on which this framework's own indicators stand.
• Criminal Justice & Corrections and Organised Crime & Illicit Economy Response, completing the domestic-order chain beside recast policing.
• Regulatory Delivery & Independent Regulators — v0.0 held the quality of rules but not the machinery that applies them, the half firms and citizens actually meet.

The instruments home

Strategic Controls & Economic Security Administration lands the export-control, investment-screening, sanctions and research-security promises made by the Critical Technology and economic releases: the administering machinery sits here, its leverage reads at Critical Technology's control layer and the economic dimension's leverage group, and its employment belongs to influence — a mode, not a node.

The resilience settlement

The crisis group is rebuilt as National Resilience & Crisis Management, the framework's resilience home, resolving every resilience destination named across the cycle — food security, biosecurity response, household shock absorption, systemic continuity, the social protection floor. National Risk Assessment & Early Warning and Social Protection & Household Resilience stand up beside the three carried capabilities, and the group is deliberately built to lift out whole should the framework later need a standalone resilience domain.

Cross-domain repairs closed

• The three cohesion nodes arriving from Information & Influence resolve here: participation merges into Citizen Participation & Civic Space, and trust and stability demote to indicator layers.
• Business Environment retires to the economic dimension's indicator layers — the last duplicate of the revision cycle.
• Fairness & Equality relocates into the justice group as Human Rights Institutions & Equality Bodies, recast from the outcome to the institutions that pursue it.

Order logic

Eight beats: voice, judge, order, rule, deliver, clean, open, endure. Consent gives authority, law disciplines it, force serves the law; the state then makes its rules, delivers its work, and is guarded by its integrity and transparency machinery — with endurance closing the domain and the framework.

Documents

• governance-integrity-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, now superseded in every domain.

The domain turns outward

National Identity & Social Cohesion dissolves into the governance domain, where participation merges into one home and trust and cohesion demote to the performance layer of political institutions. Influence now records how the nation acts on the world, not how it holds together — closing three cross-domain duplicates in one move. The corollary shared with governance runs throughout: an index is not an institution, and the capability is the machinery the index observes.

Two groups land promises earlier releases made

• Alliances & Security Cooperation, landing the convention set in National Security v0.1: alliances are influence, with the military capability they aggregate staying in National Security and interoperability reading here as indicators. The framework's most-promised missing node — v0.0 held no alliance capability anywhere, despite three domains pointing at one.
• Development Cooperation & Global Assistance, landing the economic release's promise that development finance deployed as statecraft is influence's, with domestic development banks staying in Financial Strength and military disaster response in National Security.

Groups merged, rebuilt and completed

• Language & People-to-People Exchange merges into Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy, resolving a self-named capability and a thin structure. Global language reach demotes to the institutes' position layer, and tourism retires to the Trade & Investment capability the economic release stood up.
• The education tri-split completes: recruitment is Human Capital's, exports are Trade & Investment's, and the third leg lands here as Education Diplomacy & Alumni Networks.
• The diaspora group rebuilt from two statistics and an outcome into machinery: engagement institutions carry, scale and remittances demote to the indicator layers, and diaspora knowledge networks and circulation is new.
• Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy added — a named specialisation of a dozen states with standing units, absent from v0.0.
• Disinformation Resilience → Information Defence & Counter-Interference, matching the standing agencies established from 2022 onward, and closing the domain on its protective capability.

Seams codified

• The interference triangle is fixed: technical intrusion to National Security, electoral protection to governance, content defence here.
• Culture reads through three lenses: production in Production & Innovation, trade in Trade & Investment, promotion and penetration here.
• Economic statecraft is a mode, not a node — its employment reads across the diplomatic and alliance capabilities, its administering machinery sits in governance, its position in Trade & Investment's leverage group.
• Excluded by design: nation-brand and soft-power rankings, which are position reads across the domain.

Order logic

Six beats: convene, ally, assist, inspire, gather, tell. Diplomacy leads as the standing instrument everything else moves through; the domain closes on the defence of the information space.

Identifiers

The domain code, four of six capability group codes and twelve capability codes are carried, two by same-level relocation from the merged language group. Nine codes are retired against named successors or destinations; the full table is in the release document. The three cohesion capabilities bound for governance landed with Governance & Integrity v0.1, published in the same cycle: participation merged into Citizen Participation & Civic Space, and trust and stability demoted to indicator layers there.

Documents

• information-influence-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded influence taxonomy.

The rule, and its corollary for this dimension

Every description opens “The capacity to”, and a statistic is not a capability — the capability is the machinery, the institutions, markets, instruments and programmes, that moves the statistic. v0.0 recorded the economy's outputs; v0.1 records the machinery, with the outputs retained as its measures.

A three-layer read beneath every capability

Each capability is read at the indicator layer in fixed order: machinery (does the institution, market or instrument exist and function), performance (the flows and outcomes it delivers) and position (share, standing and leverage in the world economy), headline first. Every demoted statistic in this release persists at the performance or position layer of a named successor — the measurement surface loses nothing and gains the machinery layer everywhere.

Third-party rankings purged as capabilities

Nodes that held external assessments of the nation as the nation's own capability — sovereign credit ratings, composite innovation and competitiveness rankings — are demoted to the position layer. A framework built as a transparent alternative to proprietary assessment cannot contain proprietary assessments as nodes.

The duplicate audit, closed at eight

Cutting all three domains at once made the cross-domain duplicates visible and closable: the twin productivity nodes, the identical knowledge-intensive-exports node held in two domains, the value-chain position held in two, enterprise finance held in two, external buffers restated as the sum of two siblings, export diversity measured three times under three names, outward investment held in two, and a research-intensity ratio held in two dimensions. Each measure now lives exactly once, as a capability's indicator.

Financial Strength — anchor, raise, deepen, guard, steady, project

• Fiscal capacity rebuilt on the diagnostic-per-capability principle: revenue mobilisation, expenditure and budget management, and public investment management stand up as capabilities beside the carried debt node, while the fiscal balance and the sovereign rating demote to their indicator layers.
• The regulation group completed as four supervisory perimeters — prudential, integrity, conduct and infrastructure oversight — the last two new.
• Long-term and institutional capital added as the patient-capital machinery v0.0 lacked, and the enterprise-finance duplicate resolved: development and policy finance here, risk capital in Production & Innovation.
• Two group merges: access folded into system depth, and global integration folded into Sovereign Capital & External Financial Power, renamed to what it holds and closing on the new financial-centre capability.
• Shock absorption renamed to Financial Stability & Crisis Management, off the resilience dimension's territory, with external buffers recast as the external liquidity and safety-net capability.

Production & Innovation — yield, work, build, climb, venture, spark, spread

• Labour & Employment created, repairing the dimension's largest coverage gap and landing the activation seam codified in Human Capital v0.1: that domain develops people, this dimension employs them. Four capabilities cover participation, institutions and wage setting, employment services and matching, and adjustment, transition and formalisation.
• The productive economy completed: services and agrifood stand up beside manufacturing and the foundational industries, and regional and place-based development is added so the domain reads the whole territory rather than one city.
• The innovation architecture resolved along the seam locked in Human Capital v0.1 — research measurement governs there, innovation measurement here. The research group dissolves, and a new Innovation & Commercialisation group assembles the business-innovation, knowledge-transfer, intellectual-property and cluster capabilities from three dissolved groups, every one carrying its identifier.
• Competition & Market Contestability added — the sharpest productivity instrument an economy holds, and absent from v0.0.

Trade & Investment — flow, deal, stream, invest, sell, weave, bind

• Renamed from Investment & Trade, carrying its identifier, and reordered so trade leads.
• Facilitation separated from infrastructure: the fixed transport assets return to Strategic Infrastructure, while customs and border management stays and ports-and-shipping is recast as the maritime and logistics services economy.
• Three additions complete the trading state: standards, conformity and quality infrastructure; export credit and trade finance; and the tourism and visitor economy, a top-tier export sector absent from v0.0.
• The closer recast from risks into machinery: strategic supply security as the capacity to see, stress-test and diversify dependencies; concentration risk paired with stabilisation and hedging; and leverage paired with coercion resistance.

Boundaries codified

• People are developed by Human Capital and employed here; research measurement governs there, innovation measurement here.
• Technology capacity is Critical Technology's, with commercialisation, economy-wide adoption and trade held here, and the leverage of control instruments read jointly at that domain's control layer and this dimension's supply-security capability.
• Fixed assets — plants, networks, ports, payment rails, public works — are Strategic Infrastructure's, with the operating capabilities, services economies and oversight machinery held here.
• Legal instruments of economic statecraft are governance's; the employment of economic weight, and memberships of institutions, are influence's; systemic shock absorption beyond the financial system is the resilience dimension's.

Order logic

Three movements, twenty beats, read as one continuous line: anchor, raise, deepen, guard, steady, project; yield, work, build, climb, venture, spark, spread; flow, deal, stream, invest, sell, weave, bind. Financial Strength leads because money is the substrate; Production & Innovation generates the wealth; Trade & Investment closes, where capability meets the world and position becomes leverage.

Identifiers

The dimension code, all three domain codes, 18 of 20 capability group codes and 50 capability codes are carried — nine capabilities by same-level relocation, one of them crossing a domain boundary within this coordinated release under an extended relocation convention. Twenty-eight codes are retired, every one against a named successor or destination; the full table sits in the release document.

Documents

• economic-power-v0.1.json — the release as published, covering the dimension and all three of its domains.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded economic taxonomy.

The rule, and its corollary for this domain

Every description opens “The capacity to”, and a technology is not a capability — the capability is the capacity to discover, make, deploy and control it. Every v0.0 description that defined a technology rather than a national capacity was rewritten. The domain now records what nations can do about technologies, not what the technologies are.

A four-layer read beneath every capability

Each capability is read at the indicator layer in a fixed order: discover (research strength in the named family), make (frontier production capacity and output), deploy (adoption and diffusion through the economy and the state) and control (supply-chain position, chokepoint leverage and concentration of dependence). Research-share rankings persist in full as the discover layer, so the consolidation below removes nothing from the measurement surface — it gives the measurements a capability to hang from.

The semiconductor chain, made a group

Semiconductors & Advanced Computing takes the value chain as its capabilities: design and design tooling, fabrication, the equipment and materials that make fabrication possible, advanced packaging, compound and power devices, and the high-performance and AI computing the chain exists to build. v0.0 held the era's most contested technology chain as a single node inside another group, and split computing across two. The equipment-and-materials stage — where supply concentration is greatest and where control instruments actually operate — had no node at all.

Bibliometric granularity consolidated

Twenty-one capability identifiers were retired, the largest turnover of any v0.1 release — every one a merge, an absorption, a split or a cross-domain disposition against a named successor. The logic throughout: a research-convenient slice, a single sensor type, a single fuel pathway, a single storage chemistry, a single platform class, is an indicator, not a national capacity.

Groups reconstituted, renamed and split

• Advanced ICT → Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies. Computing removed to the semiconductor group, the undersea node absorbed into resilient networks, and Distributed ledgers recast as Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies — from one data architecture to the family of technologies that establish digital trust. The group now holds one coherent thing: the movement, protection and trustworthiness of information.
• Position, Navigation & Timing → Sensing, Timing & Navigation, renamed to what it actually holds. Single-modality sensor nodes merged into capability-level sensing families, and positioning recast around operating where satellite navigation is denied.
• Space, Robotics & Mobility split into Robotics & Autonomous Systems and Space Technologies, its group identifier retired: the two families are separate on every serious classification, and the v0.0 grouping recorded a drafting convenience rather than a structure.
• Quantum Computing → Quantum Technologies, the only group carried whole — every identifier persists, sensing broadened to metrology, and post-quantum cryptography retained on the logic that the threat, the timeline and the national programmes that own the response are quantum ones.
• Artificial Intelligence consolidated: hardware moved to the semiconductor group, the standalone language node absorbed into the model capability as the field consolidated around general-purpose systems, and Adversarial AI broadened to AI Safety, Security & Evaluation, now a standing state function.
• Human-Machine Interfaces added — the one wholly new capability in the release.

Cross-domain repairs

• Minerals extraction and processing operations returned to Strategic Infrastructure, with processing, substitution and recycling technology reading across the materials capabilities.
• Electronic warfare returned to National Security as an operational capability, with the radio-frequency technology base held here.
• The hypersonic defence system returned to National Security, with the sensing residue held under radar.
• Launch supporting infrastructure excised to Strategic Infrastructure, and the fabrication plant assigned there with the process technology held here.

Boundaries codified

• Plant versus process. Fabs, laboratories, data centres, launch complexes, reactors and production works are Strategic Infrastructure's; the process technology and know-how are held here.
• Technology versus employment. Cyber and electromagnetic operations, missile defence, the military use of autonomy and space belong to National Security; the technology base is held here.
• Field position versus aggregate research. Human Capital's Knowledge Production holds the research enterprise entire; this domain reads position within named technology families — the same evidence under two lenses, without duplication.
• Commercialisation and scale-up to the economic domains, with the deploy layer here reading diffusion rather than revenue; control machinery — export controls, investment screening, research security — to governance, with the leverage it exercises recorded here at the control layer.
• Excluded by design: policy instruments, which are levers on capability rather than capability, and intent — the domain records dual-use capacity as capacity, with employment classified where it occurs.

Order logic

Capability groups run from matter to orbit, read as one line: forge, charge, compute, learn, leap, link, sense, act, code, ascend. At the indicator layer the four reads order discover, make, deploy, control — so the deepest level of the taxonomy carries the domain's method.

Identifiers

The domain code, seven of ten capability group codes and 42 capability codes are carried unchanged, eight of them carrying by same-level relocation under the convention introduced with National Security v0.1. Twenty-two codes are retired, every one against a named successor; new nodes show as pending assignment in the framework view. The full retired-code table, with dispositions, is in the release document.

Corrections

Sentence-case capability names raised to title case — this was the only domain that carried them — and spellings corrected throughout.

Documents

• critical-technology-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded Critical Technology taxonomy.

The rule, and its corollary for this domain

Every description opens “The capacity to”, and a node writable only as a class of equipment is an asset class, which registers at the indicator layer. Attack Helicopters, Carriers & Naval Aviation and Support & Auxiliaries were retired into the capabilities whose effects they serve. Platform inventories — UNROCA classes, Military Balance counts, SIPRI expenditure — become the indicator layer beneath the taxonomy rather than the taxonomy itself.

The joint layer, which v0.0 lacked

Three groups were added: Force Generation & Mobilisation, Joint Command, Projection & Sustainment and Strategic Strike & Missile Defence. The v0.0 taxonomy began at the platform layer with no account of how force is raised, commanded, moved or sustained; Japan's Defense Buildup Program, the PLA's 2015–16 and 2024 restructurings and Korea's three-axis system independently derive the same layer, and the wars of the 2020s have shown it is where outcomes are decided.

The constabulary rung, completed in every environment

Territorial & Paramilitary Forces on land, Maritime Security & Constabulary at sea and Air Sovereignty & Policing in the air — the rung where most of the world's states actually operate, and the lead instrument of grey-zone pressure. The IISS usability criterion sets the paramilitary scope test: forces whose organisation, equipment and control make them employable in support of the military.

Environments rebuilt around effects

• Land Power. Infantry and armour merged into Combined Arms Manoeuvre — the capability is the combination — carrying the infantry identifier on universality logic; air defence extracted from the artillery parenthetical; Special Forces broadened to Special Operations & Irregular Warfare, the honest home of the proxy instrument.
• Maritime Power as an ambition ladder: Submarines recast as Sea Denial & Undersea Warfare — the recasting the Black Sea campaign of 2022–24 demanded, sea denial achieved with almost no navy — and surface combatants and carriers merged into Sea Control.
• Air Power as an ambition ladder with the enabling layer closing: policing, Control of the Air, Air Strike & Interdiction and Airborne ISR, Early Warning & Battle Management.
• Space Capability → Space Operations, recast from asset classes to effects, with commercial and allied augmentation counting toward the capability.
• Cyber Capability → Cyber & Electromagnetic Operations, matching current doctrine and the PLA's 2024 force structure, with Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations added — absent from v0.0 in the decade that made it decisive.
• Intelligence Capability → Intelligence & Assessment, with All-Source Analysis & Warning added as the integrating capacity, and Nuclear Capability → Nuclear Deterrence.

The sword and the shields

Strategic Strike & Missile Defence assembles the offence–defence pair of the missile age: Long-Range Strike relocated from Air Power and broadened beyond the bomber, with dual-capable systems classified here and the nuclear role recorded as an attribute; Integrated Air & Missile Defence elevated from a v0.0 parenthetical; and Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence broken out on proliferation and cost-exchange logic — nearly every state now needs it, few can afford the exquisite shield.

Boundaries codified

• Three layers with Strategic Infrastructure. Capabilities here, platform inventories at the indicator layer beneath, and the fixed estate — bases, yards, depots, factories, launch complexes, ground stations — in Strategic Infrastructure.
• Seams. The general talent base to Human Capital; alliances, arms transfers and strategic information operations to influence, with earned interoperability registering here as indicators; civil control, oversight and policing to governance; civil defence and crisis management to national resilience.
• Grey-zone employment is a mode, not a node, registering across the constabulary, paramilitary, special operations, cyber and electromagnetic capabilities.
• Treaty-banned weapons receive no nodes. Chemical and biological subject matter appears only as CBRN Defence, the defensive capacity, with nuclear weapons the sole NPT-acknowledged exception; nuclear latency is deliberately not a node but an assessment read across the Strategic Infrastructure seam.
• Military expenditure and personnel numbers are input indicators, never capabilities.

Order logic

Capability groups follow the arc of the state's use of force, read as one line: raise, know, command, hold, sail, fly, strike, orbit, contest, deter. The domain ends on deter, completing the family of closers — Strategic Infrastructure ends on protect and Human Capital on care.

Identifiers

A relocation convention enters with this release: a node moved at the same level carries its identifier, while any change of level takes a new code. Air Mobility → Strategic Lift & Mobility and Strategic Strike → Long-Range Strike are the first cases. The domain code, all seven v0.0 capability group codes and 23 capability codes are carried unchanged; six codes are retired; new nodes show as pending assignment in the framework view.

Corrections

“(Optional)” removed from a published capability name, the informal plus-sign nuclear names retired, and Armored and Air Defense corrected to British spellings.

Documents

• national-security-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded National Security taxonomy.

One rule, applied domain-wide

Every description now opens “The capacity to”. A node that cannot be written that way without naming a statistic is an indicator, and moves down a layer. Three v0.0 capabilities failed the test: Participation Rates in TVET and R&D Intensity were retired and demoted to indicators, and Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) was recast as Tertiary Access & Participation — carrying its identifier, with GER demoted to its headline indicator.

Health doubled

Three health capabilities in a 21-capability domain did not survive validation against the World Bank's treatment of health as roughly half of human capital. Public Health & Wellness was split into Population Health — the embodied health of the people — and Health System Capability — the standing system that maintains it. Health goes from three capabilities to six, or eight counting the two child-health nodes in the new early years group.

Groups added

• Early Childhood Development. The v0.0 domain began at primary school. ISCED level 0, the Human Capital Index — which begins at birth — and dedicated national machinery (Australia's Early Years Strategy, the UK's Best Start for Life, Ireland's First 5) all locate the start of capability formation at birth.
• Population Health and Health System Capability, from the split above.

Capabilities added

• Teaching Workforce, closing the v0.0 asymmetry of a health workforce capability with no education counterpart — governments now plan teachers as they plan clinicians.
• Talent Attraction & Retention, the best-validated addition in the revision: entire visa regimes exist for it, from the UK and Australian Global Talent classes to Singapore's ONE Pass, Germany's Skilled Immigration Act and China's talent recruitment programmes.
• Public Health Functions, anchored by the IHR (2005) core capacities and validated by a post-pandemic generation of institution building: UKHSA (2021), the EU's HERA (2021) and the Australian CDC, statutory from 1 January 2026.
• Doctoral & Research Training, Mental Health & Wellbeing and Nutrition & Preventive Health.

Groups refocused and renamed

• Research & Innovation → Research Talent & Knowledge Creation, cut along the Frascati–Oslo seam: R&D personnel and knowledge production held here, firm-centred innovation and commercialisation assigned to the economic domains. Research Output & Quality merged into Knowledge Production, resolving a v0.0 duplication.
• Digital & AI Literacy → Digital & AI Competence, matching the DigComp framing. Digital Access & Usage was retired: connectivity moved to Strategic Infrastructure, the usage-skill residue absorbed into Foundational Digital Skills.
• Healthcare Workforce & Capacity → Health & Care Workforce: facilities struck from its description, repairing a v0.0 breach of the soft-domain boundary, and scope broadened to the care economy.
• Primary & Secondary Education → Foundational Education, Vocational & Technical Skills → Technical & Vocational Skills (the international TVET term), Higher Education → Advanced Education and Workforce Upskilling → Lifelong Learning & Reskilling.

Boundaries codified

• The utilisation seam. Skills formation, renewal and the first transition into work are held here; activation, participation, matching and sustained deployment belong to the economic domains.
• Health security splits by verb. Prevent, detect and assess here; response materiel in Strategic Infrastructure; crisis coordination with national resilience.
• International education splits three ways. Student-to-resident conversion here, export earnings to the economic domains, alumni networks to influence.
• Estate is not capability. Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, schools, campuses, connectivity and devices all belong to Strategic Infrastructure; only competence is held here.
• Excluded by design. Policy and funding instruments such as subsidies, visa settings and training levies; raw demography, which is endowment rather than capability; and social capital, counted as a separate stock.

Order logic

Capability groups follow the arc of a life and close on the base that carries it, read as one line: nurture, school, advance, skill, equip, renew, discover, thrive, care. Survive-before-learn is honoured where it is causally true, inside Early Childhood Development; at domain level education leads, because the domain's identity is knowledge and skills. The last capability is Public Health Functions, so the domain ends on protect, echoing the Strategic Infrastructure closer.

Identifiers

The domain code, six of nine capability group codes and 17 capability codes are carried unchanged from v0.0. Five codes are retired. New nodes carry no code yet and show as pending assignment in the framework view.

Corrections

Spelling carried to the house standard through names and descriptions: enrolment and programmes, consistent with the Centres correction in Strategic Infrastructure v0.1.

Documents

• human-capital-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded Human Capital taxonomy.

Groups added

Three capability groups were added — Water, Sanitation & Waste, Agriculture & Food and Financial Infrastructure — aligning the domain with sectors designated across the US, UK, EU and Australian regimes. Water and wastewater, food, and banking and financial market infrastructures are each separately designated in those frameworks and had no home in v0.0.

Groups merged and broadened

• The v0.0 Communications and AI & Digital groups were merged into a single Communications & Digital Infrastructure group, mirroring the UK's classification of data infrastructure as a sub-sector of Communications (Critical National Infrastructure designation, September 2024) and the EU's single digital infrastructure sector.
• The v0.0 Aerospace group was broadened to Space, Aerospace & Defence. Satellites and orbital systems, and ground segment capabilities, were added — consistent with space-sector designations in the UK (2015), the EU CER Directive and Australia's SOCI Act — and the defence estate was brought into scope under a sector-override rule, complementing defence industrial base designations in the US, UK and Australian frameworks.

Capabilities split along industry convention

• Electricity generation split by technology family, following IEA convention: thermal, nuclear, hydropower and other renewables.
• Extraction split into mining and hydrocarbons, following the ISIC/NACE statistical division.
• Maritime split into seaports and inland waterways.
• Land transport split into rail, roads and a logistics-and-border integration layer.
• Communications resegmented by regulatory licence category: fixed, mobile, international gateway and broadcast.

Government brought into scope

Government & Public Administration was added as a capability, reflecting the US Government Services and Facilities sector, the EU CER public administration sector and NATO's continuity-of-government baseline requirement. Election infrastructure is included, consistent with its 2017 designation as a US critical infrastructure subsector. A companion capability, Justice, Public Safety & Emergency Services, carries the emergency services designated in both the US and UK frameworks.

Validation absorptions at asset level

• Chemicals, explosives and semiconductor fabrication named in manufacturing.
• Postal and courier infrastructure placed in logistics, per the NIS2 postal and courier services sector.
• Hydrometeorological and early-warning infrastructure placed in emergency services, per the WMO Early Warnings for All initiative.
• National cybersecurity facilities and domain-name registries placed in the digital capabilities, per NIS2 and EU CER essential services.
• National medical stockpiles named in health.

Exclusions codified

What the domain deliberately leaves out is now stated rather than left as an omission: commercial facilities such as hotels, shopping centres, casinos and entertainment venues; places of worship; the private housing market; agricultural land holdings; spectrum allocations and other intangible rights; and policy instruments such as subsidies.

Order logic

Capability groups were reordered along the national value chain: what the country extracts and grows, the utilities that make activity possible, the industry that transforms inputs into goods, the three networks that move things — transport for goods, communications and digital for data, financial for money — the services that sustain the population, and the systems that extend and protect the whole. Read as one line: extract, grow, power, water, make, move, connect, transact, sustain, protect. The reasoning is recorded per node and shown in the framework view.

Identifiers

The domain code, seven of ten capability group codes and 23 capability codes are carried unchanged from v0.0. Four codes are retired. New nodes carry no code yet and show as pending assignment in the framework view.

Corrections

Two typographical corrections carried from v0.0: Transmission & Distribution and Workforce & Innovation.

Documents

• strategic-infrastructure-v0.1.json — the release as published.
• national-capability-framework-v0.0.json — the framework entire at v0.0, holding the superseded Strategic Infrastructure taxonomy alongside the eight domains this release does not touch.

The v0.1 release notes describe v0.0 as holding 25 capabilities; the archived v0.0 encoding, taken from the published framework, holds 26.