Expert Boards
Engine: Architecture
Framing
Six Expert Boards hold genuine discretionary authority within congressionally-set corridors. Same architecture as the Federal Reserve: Senate-confirmed members, fixed terms, cause-only removal, published rationale for methodology decisions. All boards carry 10-year sunset clauses requiring affirmative congressional renewal.
National Statistics Board — National Statistics Board
COMPASS administration, AARA development, MERIT dashboard, Regional Cost Index, Automation Exposure Index. Power of measurement, not policy. National Statistics Board methodology is public, data sources are public, trigger thresholds are statutory. The National Statistics Board validates data inputs for the other boards, serving as the evidentiary backbone of the Accord's self-governing architecture.
American Healthcare Quality Board — American Health Quality Board
Distributed Healthcare Master Fee Schedule, pharmaceutical reference pricing (120%), new technology assessment, externality schedule calibration for healthcare-adjacent externalities (tobacco, sugar). The most powerful board — genuine discretionary authority over healthcare pricing within the 115% OECD-median cost cap.
Federal Housing Standards Board — Federal Housing Standards Board
Unified national building code. ZRIG compliance assessment. Factory-built and modular housing design pre-approval (FAA-style type certification). Housing adequacy targets per metropolitan statistical area.
Financial Stability and Disbursement Board — Financial Stability and Disbursement Board
Counter-cyclical too-big-to-fail bank levy multiplier (0.5×–2.0×). Financial Stability Reserve governance. Climate Adaptation Trust disbursement prioritization. Three pre-authorized deployment triggers: interbank rate spike (automatic secured lending), systemic institutional failure (resolution authority), Climate Adaptation deployment (coastal defense for dense urban nodes, wildfire mitigation, flood resilience).
Digital Online Safety Board — Digital Online Safety Board
Digital Ad Levy modulation (±3 percentage points). Section 230 certification — platforms below Digital Online Safety Board algorithmic harm index threshold lose safe harbor. 24-month renewal cycle. Algorithmic harm measurement methodology. Privacy and surveillance architecture (joint with National Statistics Board). Frontier AI model risk evaluation — pre-deployment evaluation and post-deployment monitoring for foundation models above a published capability threshold, with the authority to require remediation or restrict deployment. Algorithmic deployment oversight for high-risk domains — medical diagnostics, criminal-justice decision support, critical-infrastructure controls, lending and insurance underwriting — with disclosure, audit, and appeal rights for affected individuals.
FWDB — Federal Workforce Development Board
Skills Wallet MERIT accreditation. Apprenticeship standards. Interaction with Productivity Turbo macrogovernor during recessions. Administers a narrowly-defined portfolio of Bottleneck Workforce Programs targeting occupations where current US pipeline capacity falls short of demand and where federal intervention can materially close the gap. Envelope: approximately $8.4 billion/year at maturity.
Bottleneck Workforce Programs (narrow roster)
Roster deliberately limited to avoid mission creep. The five initial programs are:
Nursing and community health workers — RN, LPN, CNA, community health worker credentials
Electrical grid technicians and linemen — transmission line workers, substation technicians, cyber-hardened operations staff
Semiconductor fab technicians — clean-room operators, process technicians, equipment maintenance staff
Commercial drivers for rural logistics — CDL credentialing, route specialization, last-mile rural delivery
Childcare workers with credential pathways — early-childhood credentials aligned with the federal childcare mandate (covers ages 0-5 including Pre-K window); state and local jurisdictions set additional curriculum and wage standards
The list is published by FWDB with Department of Education coordination and is subject to annual review. Additions require affirmative board vote with published rationale (National Statistics Board labor-market data, National Statistics Board Automation Exposure Index, demonstrated federal funding impact). Programs are delivered through MERIT-accredited providers (community colleges, apprenticeship sponsors, industry training consortia) rather than a federal training bureaucracy. The federal role is standards-setting and funding; delivery is local.
Alliance Incentive Scoring Panel
Governance domain scoring for Alliance Incentive member and applicant nations. Olympic scoring methodology. Tier assignment based on domain composites. Informs tariff rates, immigration priority, supply chain preference. See Chapter 25.
Why boards, not bureaucracy
Congress retains authority over quantitative corridors, funding envelopes, and statutory triggers. Boards execute within corridors. This is the 'intelligent customer' framework applied to governance: Congress specifies what outcomes are required; boards determine how within the technical space.