# Federated Trust Fabric **Entity class:** Interorganizational trust architecture ## Definition A **federated trust fabric** lets separately governed organizations recognize identities, credentials, assessment evidence, permissions, and signed transactions without becoming one organization. Common primitives make trust portable; local policy still decides whether and how to rely on it. ## Relationships - **implemented through:** [[wiki/Machine-Readable Assurance|Machine-Readable Assurance]], [[wiki/Federal Public Key Infrastructure|Federal PKI]], and [[wiki/Reciprocity (Information Assurance)|Reciprocity]]. - **connects without collapsing:** [[wiki/Intelligence Community|Intelligence Community]], [[wiki/United States Department of Defense|DoD]], civilian agencies, state and local partners, and contractors. - **operational examples:** [[wiki/CJADC2|CJADC2]], [[wiki/Open DAGIR|Open DAGIR]], and [[wiki/National Network of Fusion Centers|National Network of Fusion Centers]]. - **source:** [[research/Machine-Readable Assurance and the Convergence of Intelligence|Machine-Readable Assurance and the Convergence of Intelligence]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [GSA — Federal PKI Management Authority](https://www.idmanagement.gov/ficam/) - [ODNI — ICD 503](https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD-503.pdf)