Joint Forward Drone Battery Swap Network Survivability Cell

Joint Forward Drone Battery Swap Network Survivability Cell

Mission Scope

• Treat this skill as a planning and decision-support aid for U.S. warfighter missions in its domain.
• Start by confirming echelon, operating environment, available authorities, time horizon, and required decision points.
• Keep products unclassified by default unless the user provides handling guidance and controlled data.

Workflow

1. Frame the mission problem using these core inputs: battery inventory state, swap-node uptime, sortie demand, and threat-to-node overlays.
2. Identify assumptions, decision thresholds, and what intelligence or reporting would invalidate the current plan.
3. Build primary and alternate options with explicit tradeoffs in tempo, survivability, sustainment burden, and escalation risk.
4. Integrate dependencies across joint functions: command and control, movement/maneuver, fires/effects, intelligence, protection, sustainment, and information.
5. Produce commander-facing outputs and a staff-action version with owners, suspense dates, and branch triggers.

Required Output Format

Deliver results in this order:

1. Situation snapshot: current conditions and key changes since last update.
2. Recommended option: one clearly stated recommendation and rationale.
3. Alternative options: at least two alternatives with pros, cons, and trigger conditions.
4. Decision points: what must be decided now, later, or pre-delegated.
5. Staff tasking: who does what by when.

Domain Products

Primary products for this skill: battery-swap network survivability map, node hardening priorities, sortie continuity branch plan.

External Tools and Protocol Integration

• Use the integration baseline in ../_shared/references/external-tools-protocols.md.
• Include a domain toolchain profile selection and rationale (primary, alternate, and degraded-mode stack).
• Prioritize mission-fit tool families and define exact outbound message format (USMTF, VMF, Link 16 J-series, CoT, STIX/TAXII, OGC, or API/JSON) per recommendation.
• Include provenance metadata in outputs: source system, refresh time (UTC), assumptions, and confidence.

Interoperability Validation Checklist

• Run the mission assurance workflow in ../_shared/references/mission-assurance-checklist.md before final release.
• Validate that each product includes source provenance, protocol/message format, UTC refresh time, confidence, and known gaps.
• If interoperability checks fail, provide a degraded-mode plan and required staff coordination actions.

Tool Invocation Contract

• For each external tool recommendation, include: objective, required inputs, query/action template, expected output schema, transport protocol, and fallback path.
• Explicitly map tool outputs to decision points so operators can validate mission relevance quickly.
• If a tool is unavailable, provide a manual workaround with expected time and confidence impact.

Guardrails

• Flag gaps where assumptions exceed evidence.
• Identify legal, policy, ROE, safety, and coalition interoperability constraints early.
• Separate facts, assessed judgments, and unknowns.
• Do not fabricate classified sources, authorities, or approvals.

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, legal basis, or data provenance is uncertain, downgrade to advisory-only and require human command review.

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.
• 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.

Domain Toolchain Override (2026-03-09, Forward Drone Battery-Swap Network Survivability)

• Prioritize tool_suite_id=ts-forward-drone-battery-swap-survivability-v1 with protocol_stack_id=ps-forward-drone-battery-swap-survivability-stack-v1 for this mission set when indicators exceed baseline risk thresholds.
• Use packet DPL-FORWARD-DRONE-BATTERY-SWAP-SURVIVABILITY-001 to bind machine-ingestible tasking fields, commander decision prompts, and degraded-mode controls.
• If data freshness, acknowledgment integrity, or authority validation fails, downgrade to advisory-only and require explicit command approval.