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What is "ratification intelligence"?

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> The HPSC processor and X280 compute subsystem is expected to be useful to other government agencies in a variety of applications including industrial automation, edge computing, ratification intelligence, and aerospace applications.

I couldn't find a good answer online.

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I couldn't find a formal definition quickly from my sources. However, it appears in context in a few places and it seems to use the sense of "ratify" meaning "to confirm" or "to validate". "Ratify" and "ratification" are used in places where one might expect to replace it in the prose with "verify" or "verification", as in using multiple different intelligence sources (video, photo, signals, live, etc) to build confirmatory evidence of something when multiple overlapping sources exist rather than trusting a single source.

A chip like that could be used for sensor fusion and validation, calculation validation, and a lot of other things. For example, if you have three IMUs doing your positioning, you could use this to ratify and validate that they are all working correctly or throw out an answer if one disagrees with the other. I've generally thought of using an FPGA for this sort of work, but a certified and inexpensive coprocessor would work well for this use case.

Ok, so that's related to consensus algorithm.

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