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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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watsonx.governance

ARCTIC-MATERIAL-PERFORMANCE-TRANSPARENCY

Independent verification and transparent reporting for armor claims in extreme cold, so procurement rests on verified test data — not vendor assertions. Driver: Integris announced a Global Arctic Armor Development Team (Feb 2026) for Arctic operat...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

ARMOR-INTEGRITY-LIFECYCLE-GOVERNANCE

Governance framework tracking composite armor cradle-to-grave: manufacturing provenance, ballistic tests, degradation monitoring, retirement audit trails. Catches degraded protection before failure. Driver: Integris Composites (ex-TenCate) armors ...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

EW-DEGRADED-FALLBACK-PROTOCOL

Require AI command systems to define and test fallback behavior under electronic-warfare degradation: when links or sensors drop, degrade to pre-approved conservative modes — never unguided autonomy. Driver: Project Flytrap operates in 'EW-contest...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

TARGETING-AI-PROVENANCE-RECORD

Every AI-assisted targeting output must carry a provenance record: model name/version, training-data lineage, sensor feeds, confidence score, approver. Makes AI decisions reviewable. Driver: Project Flytrap integrates AI-enabled C2 (army.mil) — go...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

C-UAS-DECISION-LEDGER

Immutable, tamper-evident ledger recording every counter-drone engagement decision: sensor detections, AI recommendation, confidence score, and the authorizer. Enables after-action review. Driver: Project Flytrap (army.mil) fields mobile C-UAS at ...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

SENSOR-FUSION-INTEGRITY-ATTESTATION

Require cryptographic attestation on sensor feeds entering AI fusion: each frame signed at source, verified before fusion. Stops spoofed sensors corrupting AI targeting pictures. Driver: Project Flytrap's 'data-centric kill web' (army.mil, AUSA 20...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

HUMAN-OVERSIGHT-MANDATE-AI-TARGETING

Mandate human approval before any AI targeting recommendation becomes an engagement order. AI proposes; a named human approves or rejects; the decision is recorded. Driver: Project Flytrap (2nd Cavalry Regiment, army.mil) integrates AI-enabled C2 ...
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

COLD-CASE-REVIEW-PANELS

Institutionalize mixed internal/external cold-case review panels with early State Attorney partnership for missing-person cases dormant beyond 5 years. The 2026 breakthrough used retired investigators, a dedicated analyst, and early prosecutor coo...
about 15 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

GRANDPARENT-CONTACT-ENFORCEMENT

Create fast-track, reviewable grandparent/caregiver contact provisions tied to missing/presumed-dead parent cases, with written judicial findings. The Parker family helped pass Florida's visitation-rights law (~2015) yet lost their own 2016 petiti...
about 15 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

DIGITAL-EVIDENCE-HOURS-PIPELINE

Mandate hours-window digital evidence preservation in suspected-foul-play missing-person cases: immediate imaging/extraction of the missing person's devices, vehicle infotainment/GPS, and carrier-data preservation requests. Forensic advances only ...
about 15 hours ago in watsonx.governance Submitted