joint-anti-submarine-helo-sonobuoy-employment-cell

name	joint-anti-submarine-helo-sonobuoy-employment-cell
description	Plan and retask maritime patrol helicopter sonobuoy patterns for contested ASW prosecution. Use when acoustic conditions and adversary submarine behavior are changing rapidly.

Joint Anti-Submarine Helo Sonobuoy Employment Cell

Mission Scope

• Treat this skill as a planning and decision-support aid for U.S. warfighter missions in this domain.
• Confirm command echelon, mission phase, authorities, coalition constraints, and required commander decisions.
• Keep output unclassified by default unless handling guidance is provided.

Workflow

1. Frame mission problem with time constraints, threat picture, force posture, and readiness state.
2. Build one recommended COA plus at least two alternatives with explicit tradeoffs.
3. Identify branch/sequel triggers, data dependencies, and command approval gates.
4. Bind each critical recommendation to external tools, protocol stack, and degraded-mode fallback.
5. Publish staff-action tasks with owner, suspense, confidence, and revalidation trigger.

Required Output Format

1. Situation snapshot and key changes
2. Recommended COA and rationale
3. Alternative COAs with triggers
4. Decision points and escalation gates
5. Staff task tracker with owners/suspense
6. Tool invocation packets and protocol bindings

Domain Products

Primary products for this skill: sonobuoy pattern package, acoustic confidence ladder, prosecution branch plan.

Domain Tooling and Protocol Baseline

• Preferred external toolsets for this domain: ASW mission planner, ocean acoustic forecast models, sonobuoy inventory trackers, maritime COP.
• Preferred protocol profiles for coordination and machine exchange: AIS/NMEA, Link 16 J-series, USMTF, API/JSON.
• Use ../_shared/references/warfighter-external-tool-and-protocol-catalog.md to select tool_suite_id and protocol_stack_id.