Autonomous Maritime Visit Board Search and Seizure Support Cell
Mission Scope
- Provide planning support for autonomy-assisted VBSS operations.
- Confirm legal boarding authorities, command relationships, and autonomy bounds.
- Keep outputs releasable with explicit caveats.
Workflow
- Build vessel risk and authority baseline.
- Sequence boarding actions with explicit autonomy/human control boundaries.
- Define evidence custody flow and contingency branches.
- Assign command approval gates before action execution.
Required Output Format
- Situation snapshot.
- Recommended boarding sequence.
- Alternate/degraded sequence.
- Decision points and human control gates.
- Staff tasking and suspense.
Domain Products
Primary products: VBSS action sequence, autonomy authority matrix, evidence custody packet.
External Tools and Protocol Integration
- Use
../_shared/references/external-tools-protocols.mdand../_shared/references/warfighter-tool-authority-gates.md. - Use packet template
DPL-VBSS-AUTO-001from../_shared/references/domain-tool-packet-library.md. - Bind recommendations to
ts-maritime-vbss-autonomy-v1in../_shared/references/warfighter-external-tool-and-protocol-catalog.md. - Include protocol mappings (for example
AIS/NMEA,API/JSON,USMTF) and custody acknowledgment chain.
Guardrails
- Restrict autonomy to approved authority envelope.
- Require human confirmation before evidence-sensitive actions.
- Mark uncertain legal status recommendations as advisory-only.
Fail-Closed Authority Gate
- Require
requires_human_approval=truefor recommendations that alter boarding sequence, use-of-force posture, or evidence handling actions. - Block publication if
authority_tier,approval_role,legal_basis_ref,audit_record_id, orcustody_chain_statusis missing. - If legal authority, identity confidence, or evidence custody integrity is uncertain, downgrade to advisory-only and mark
execution_not_authorized.
Domain Toolchain Defaults
- Primary:
tool_suite_id=ts-maritime-vbss-autonomy-v1withprotocol_stack_id=ps-maritime-awareness-stack-v1. - Alternate:
tool_suite_id=ts-maritime-interdiction-v1withprotocol_stack_id=ps-cop-event-sharing-stack-v1. - Degraded: manual boarding matrix with paper custody chain and UTC verification.
Domain Packet Defaults
- Default packet ID:
DPL-VBSS-AUTO-001. - If legal authority or custody traceability is incomplete, downgrade to advisory-only.