Current boundary: No screening body, independent stop-work authority, contractual controls, or appeal body currently exists. Therefore no relevant customer, defense, dual-use, or operational engagement is authorized by this policy.
Purpose and scope
GShips may research safety, resilience, logistics, communications, recovery, and cyber defense only within explicit end-use, rights, and independent-review controls. Calling an activity defensive is never sufficient by itself.
Apply dual-use review before accepting or materially advancing customer, funder, collaborator, operational, procurement, or publication-sensitive work whose capability, data, end use, or transfer could reasonably enable a prohibited use. Public non-actionable education still follows prohibited-content and sensitive-publication controls.
Allowed in principle
- Safety engineering and independently assessed protection
- Resilience, graceful degradation, recovery, and disaster response
- Civil logistics, maintenance, communications, and knowledge continuity
- Cyber defense, secure software, incident response, and recovery
- Rights-preserving health, accessibility, ecology, education, and governance research
Prohibited
- Identification, tracking, prioritization, or engagement of people or assets for force, weapons, repression, or offensive operations; safety navigation, astronomy, collision avoidance, search and rescue, and independently governed planetary defense are not prohibited by this clause
- Weapons command-and-control or targeting support
- Offensive access, persistence, exploitation, or destructive cyber payloads
- Mass surveillance, biometric repression, or political-control systems
- Autonomous force application
- Coercive reproductive, medical, genetic, disability, or civic control
- Nonconsensual experimentation or treating residents as research instruments
Required before relevant work
- Customer, funder, collaborator, jurisdiction, beneficial-owner, and end-use screening
- Export-control and sanctions review by qualified counsel when applicable
- Written scope, allowed-use, prohibited-use, audit, termination, and incident clauses
- Independent stop-work authority with a named alternate and founder recusal
- Sensitive-publication and information-hazard review
- Whistleblowing, escalation, incident response, appeal, and anti-retaliation paths
- Aggregate transparency reporting that protects legitimate privacy and security
Change control
Material changes require a dated public rationale, independent review, and may not be approved by the founder alone.
No current project or revenue opportunity is authorized to bypass screening because it is prestigious, urgent, publicly funded, or described as resilience.
Dual-use policy 0.1.0; controls not yet operational · Owner-alpha foundation · Independent review pending · Suggest a correction