Joint Sonobuoy Allocation And Acoustic Battery Endurance Cell

Joint Sonobuoy Allocation And Acoustic Battery Endurance 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: threat submarine picture, buoy inventories, aircraft and ship availability, acoustic conditions, and search priorities.
2. Identify assumptions, decision thresholds, and what reporting or indicators would invalidate the current buoy-allocation plan.
3. Build primary and alternate options with explicit tradeoffs in coverage persistence, battery life, sortie burden, and contact 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: sonobuoy expenditure ladder, acoustic endurance forecast, contact-persistence coverage plan.

Domain Tool Stack

Use these tool categories as the default stack for this skill: sonobuoy load planner, acoustic battery endurance board, pattern coverage analyzer, ASW contact confidence tracker.

External Tools and Protocol Integration

• Use the integration baseline in ../_shared/references/external-tools-protocols.md and select specific systems-of-record aligned to this mission.
• Use protocol examples in ../_shared/references/tool-protocol-playbooks.md to produce operator-ready tool invocation packets.
• Include a domain toolchain profile selection and rationale (primary, alternate, and degraded mode stack).
• Use at least one primary source and one cross-check source before final recommendations.
• Prefer these protocol families for this skill: Link 16 J-series, USMTF, OGC, API/JSON, signed mission-load manifests.
• Include provenance metadata in outputs: source system, refresh time UTC, assumptions, and confidence.

Interoperability Validation Checklist

• Run mission assurance checks 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.

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.
• 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 (2026-03-14, Expansion Wave L Addendum)

• Primary: tool_suite_id=ts-joint-sonobuoy-allocation-acoustic-battery-endurance-v1 with protocol_stack_id=ps-joint-sonobuoy-allocation-acoustic-battery-endurance-stack-v1.
• Alternate: tool_suite_id=ts-maritime-undersea-v1 with protocol_stack_id=ps-joint-tactical-link-stack-v1.
• Add packet_id=DPL-SONOBUOY-ENDURANCE-001 for branches that materially alter buoy expenditure, barrier persistence, or ASW release confidence.