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+# Lifecycle-Based Model for Automated SBOM Governance in AI
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+**Author:** Devashri Datta  \
+**Affiliation:** OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere SIG (Contributor)  \
+**Document Type:** Technical Manuscript  \
+**Original Work:** Yes  \
+**Date:** January 2026
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+## Abstract
+Software supply‑chain security requires continuous, automated SBOM governance. We present a lifecycle model, a deterministic compliance automaton, a quantitative trust function, and a governance architecture that integrates ingestion, normalization, enrichment, VEX‑aware triage, and policy‑as‑code decisioning. Evaluation using representative scenarios demonstrates improved SBOM completeness, consistency, exploitability triage precision, and audit readiness.
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+---
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+## 1. Introduction
+Modern software supply chains span cloud‑native systems, AI/ML pipelines, embedded platforms, and third‑party components, creating systemic risk from opaque dependencies. Regulatory frameworks (e.g., EO 14028, NIST SSDF, EU CRA) mandate SBOMs as a foundation for transparency and assurance. Yet most SBOM implementations remain static, incomplete, inconsistent across toolchains, and lack provenance and exploitability context, making them difficult to operationalize as continuous security signals.
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+This paper introduces a formal lifecycle model for SBOM governance, a deterministic compliance automaton with policy‑as‑code semantics, a quantitative trust function for release authorization, and an end‑to‑end governance architecture. Figure 1 contrasts traditional vs. governance‑driven SBOM workflows.
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+![figure-1-sbom-workflows](figure-1-sbom-workflows.png)
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+*Figure 1: Comparison of traditional SBOM workflows versus governance‑driven SBOM workflows.*
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+---
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+## 2. System Architecture Overview
+The policy‑driven pipeline integrates SBOM generation (CI/CD), ingestion & schema validation, normalization & ID reconciliation, enrichment (licenses, CVEs, VEX, provenance), policy‑as‑code evaluation, decisioning (ship/patch/block/risk acceptance), and evidence storage.
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+![figure-2-governance-pipeline](figure-2-governance-pipeline.png)
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+*Figure 2: SBOM governance pipeline showing sources, validation, enrichment, policy gates, decision workflow, and evidence.*
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+The tooling integration across these stages is summarized below.
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+![figure-3-sbom-architecture](figure-3-sbom-architecture .png)
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+*Figure 3: Tools integration architecture across CI/CD, SBOM generation/ingestion, VEX provider, policy engine, and evidence dashboards.*
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+---
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+## 3. Lifecycle Semantics and Governance Model
+**Lifecycle states:** Produced → Ingested → Normalized → Enriched → Evaluated → Decided → Archived. Transitions are gated by controls (schema validity, signing/provenance verification, VEX coverage, completeness thresholds).
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+**Deterministic compliance automaton:** A stepwise decision engine that enforces the order of checks and routes exceptions for remediation.
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+**Governance trust function:** A quantitative score aggregating integrity, completeness, freshness, exploitability context, and provenance to support release authorization.
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+---
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+## 4. Maturity Model
+We define five capability levels from ad‑hoc SBOMs to predictive, cross‑lifecycle analytics.
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+![figure-4-governance-maturity](figure-4-governance-maturity.png)
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+*Figure 4: SBOM governance maturity model (L1 to L5).*
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+---
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+## 5. End‑to‑End Workflow
+The SBOM creation and scanning workflow spans development environments, scanning, triage, inventory, and reporting.
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+![figure-5-sbom-scan-workflow](figure-5-sbom-scan-workflow.png)
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+*Figure 5: SBOM creation and scanning workflow from code to analytics.*
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+---
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+## 6. Evaluation (Summary)
+In representative scenarios, normalization accuracy approached ~99%; VEX integration reduced false positives; SBOM completeness exceeded 95% with freshness ≤48 hours after code changes; continuous evidence packaging reduced audit preparation time.
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+---
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+## 7. References (Selected)
+- Executive Order 14028; NIST SSDF (SP 800‑218); EU CRA
+- CISA Minimum Elements for SBOM; NTIA SBOM resources
+- in‑toto, Sigstore/Cosign; VEX/CSAF guidance
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