Homeland Grid Blackstart Military Support Cell

Homeland Grid Blackstart Military Support Cell

Mission Scope

• Treat this skill as a planning and decision-support aid for U.S. warfighter missions in its domain.
• Confirm echelon, environment, authorities, time horizon, and decision points before analysis.
• Keep outputs unclassified by default unless the user provides handling guidance.

Workflow

1. Frame the mission problem with command intent, constraints, and assumptions.
2. Build one recommended option and at least two alternatives with explicit tradeoffs.
3. Bind recommendations to mission dependencies across joint functions and coalition touchpoints.
4. Tie each recommendation to observable triggers, branch conditions, and revalidation checks.
5. Publish commander-readable and staff-action products with owners and suspense.

Required Output Format

Deliver in this order:

1. Situation snapshot.
2. Recommended option.
3. Alternative options.
4. Decision points and triggers.
5. Staff tasking with owners and suspense.

Domain Products

Primary products for this skill: Grid restoration support priorities, support force allocation matrix, civil-military sync timeline.

External Tools and Protocol Integration

• Use the baseline in ../_shared/references/external-tools-protocols.md and select a mission-fit toolchain profile.
• Include one primary system-of-record and one cross-check source for critical outputs.
• State the protocol/transport for outbound coordination (for example USMTF, VMF, Link 16 J-series, CoT, STIX/TAXII, OGC).
• Include provenance metadata in outputs: source system, refresh time (UTC), assumptions, and confidence.

Tool Invocation Contract

For each external tool recommendation, include objective, required inputs, query/action template, expected schema, protocol/transport, and fallback path.

Mission Tool Authority Gates

• Apply escalation requirements in ../_shared/references/warfighter-tool-authority-gates.md for high-consequence recommendations.
• Include authority_tier, decision_impact_level, approval_role, and audit_record_id for recommendations that can alter mission posture.
• If authority, legality, or data provenance is uncertain, downgrade to advisory-only and request human command decision.

Interoperability Validation Checklist

• Run ../_shared/references/mission-assurance-checklist.md before final release.
• Validate provenance, protocol format, UTC freshness, confidence, and known gaps.
• If checks fail, provide a degraded-mode plan with explicit risk effects.

Guardrails

• Flag assumptions that exceed evidence.
• Separate facts, assessed judgments, and unknowns.
• Identify legal, policy, ROE, safety, and coalition constraints early.
• Do not provide weapon-employment procedures or bypasses to safeguards.

Cross-Domain Integration Playbook

• Use ../_shared/references/cross-domain-integration-playbook.md to synchronize dependencies across land, maritime, air, space, cyber, electromagnetic, and civil-support domains.
• Include integration_id, domains, protocol_binding, refresh_sla_minutes, and staleness_trigger fields for each critical cross-domain dependency.
• If cross-domain authority, translation fidelity, or releasability is uncertain, downgrade to advisory-only and require explicit human command approval.

Mission Tool and Protocol Catalog Binding

• Use ../_shared/references/warfighter-external-tool-and-protocol-catalog.md to select concrete tool suites and protocol stacks for this domain.
• For this domain, prioritize tool_suite_id=ts-urban-substation-islanding-defense-v1 and protocol_stack_id=ps-grid-loadshedding-military-support-stack-v1 when civil-military load restoration is a primary decision driver.
• Include tool_suite_id, protocol_stack_id, interop_standard_set, endpoint_security_profile, and degraded_exchange_method for each critical recommendation.
• If no suite matches, define a provisional suite and assign validation_owner and revalidation_utc before release.