# Specific Operational Application Not Publicly Established **Entity class:** Evidentiary status **Specific operational application not publicly established** means that available public records do not prove a named commissioning, funding purpose, deployment, or operational use. It is an **unresolved** status, not a negative finding. The notation must not be expanded into “did not occur,” “was not intended,” “was excluded,” or “was technically impossible.” Those are separate propositions requiring their own evidence. Public documentation can firmly establish a method, capability, transfer, and mission-relevant applicability while leaving the precise operational destination undetermined. For Bui-Thanh's 2020 infectious-disease project, no public source presently identifies a formal counterterrorism mission assignment. The public record nevertheless establishes cross-domain method transfer and a DTRA research environment in which social networks, adversarial intent, threat networks, advanced analytics, and forecasting were mission-relevant. ## Relationships - **status within:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph Evidence Ladder|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph Evidence Ladder]]. - **does not negate:** [[wiki/Documented Cross-Domain Method Transfer|Documented Cross-Domain Method Transfer]] or [[wiki/Foreseeable Dual Use|Foreseeable Dual Use]]. - **applies to the unresolved operational history of:** [[wiki/Machine-Learning-Assisted Real-Time Simulations and Uncertainty Quantifications for Infectious Disease Outbreaks|Machine-Learning-Assisted Real-Time Simulations and Uncertainty Quantifications for Infectious Disease Outbreaks]]. ## Evidence that would resolve the status Program charters, statements of work, funding records, technical reports, software requirements, data schemas, deployment records, operational test documentation, memoranda, or direct testimony could establish or exclude a specific application. ## Sources - [Oden Institute — How to Predict, Intervene, and Contain Current and Future Epidemics, October 19, 2020](https://oden.utexas.edu/news-and-events/news/CONTEXTanBuiThanh/) - [2019 DTRA Strategic Plan for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation](https://www.dtra.mil/Portals/61/Documents/Missions/190424_2019_DTRA_Strategic_Plan_for_RDTE.pdf) **As of:** 2026-09-23