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SA-15(11) SA · System and Services Acquisition

Archive System or Component

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Require the developer of the system or system component to archive the system or component to be released or delivered together with the corresponding evidence supporting the final security and privacy review.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Archiving system or system components requires the developer to retain key development artifacts, including hardware specifications, source code, object code, and relevant documentation from the development process that can provide a readily available configuration baseline for system and component upgrades or modifications.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for SA-15(11) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. the developer of the system or system component is required to archive the system or component to be released or delivered together with the corresponding evidence supporting the final security and privacy review.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: System and services acquisition policy; procedures addressing development process, standards, and tools; solicitation documentation; acquisition documentation; service level agreements; acquisition contracts for the system or system component; evidence of archived system or component; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system and service acquisition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system developer; organizational personnel with privacy responsibilities].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control SA-15 — see the SA-15(11) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (3)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for SA-15(11). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →

Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • System and services acquisition policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Other Records

  • procedures addressing development process, standards, and tools
  • solicitation documentation
  • acquisition documentation
  • service level agreements
  • acquisition contracts for the system or system component
  • evidence of archived system or component
  • other relevant documents or records