{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:27:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 27.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094f0-4a41-79a0-863e-1be4916c5955\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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terminology and doctrinal equivalence remain attributed to particular authorities.", "in_scope": [ "Operational purpose, tasking authority and doctrinal meaning of an ESM activity", "Emission observations and the collection conditions affecting their interpretation", "Emitter classification, identity hypotheses and localisation uncertainty", "Threat-warning assessments and their evidential limitations", "Timeliness, provenance and controlled dissemination of support products" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Electronic attack execution, including jamming and electromagnetic deception", "Electronic protection implementation and equipment hardening", "The broader signals-intelligence production lifecycle", "Receiver engineering, platform design and equipment maintenance", "Weapon employment decisions and engagement execution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An instance must connect electromagnetic observation or interpretation to an operational-support purpose; possession of a receiver alone does not establish an ESM activity.", "Record whether the activity observes emissions or deliberately produces an effect on another system; the latter requires a neighbouring electronic-attack model.", "Distinguish ESM from signals intelligence through documented tasking, purpose and product use, allowing shared observations rather than assuming separate sensor types.", "An emitter classification, an individual emitter identity, a platform association and a threat assessment must remain separately contestable claims.", "A warning can be an ESM output without proving hostile intent or authorising a response." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Doctrinal interpretation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Issuing authority, document, edition, term and cited definition", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an assumed equivalence among ESM, electronic support and electromagnetic support from silently defining the entry." }, { "name": "Operational purpose", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Threat recognition, situational awareness, planning support, other documented purpose", "why_it_matters": "Explains why the activity qualifies as support and what its outputs must enable." }, { "name": "Tasking and control", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Tasking authority, responsible operator, supported recipient and applicable authorisation", "why_it_matters": "Connects collection and interpretation to accountable operational use." }, { "name": "Observation coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Declared observation interval and electromagnetic coverage, with known gaps and unknown coverage", "why_it_matters": "Limits what can be concluded from detection or non-detection." }, { "name": "Observation age", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds since observation, with clock reference and timing uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether information remains relevant to the supported decision." }, { "name": "Emitter assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unclassified, candidate class, candidate identity, unresolved alternatives or withdrawn assessment", "why_it_matters": "Keeps provisional recognition from becoming an unsupported identity claim." }, { "name": "Localisation result", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Unavailable, bearing only, bounded area or position estimate; each with reference frame and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates the kinds of spatial claim a support product can justify." }, { "name": "Assessment confidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared confidence scale, evidence basis and assessor; probability only where calibrated", "why_it_matters": "Makes confidence interpretable without inventing numerical precision." }, { "name": "Release eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pending review, releasable to named recipients, restricted, superseded or withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may disseminate a particular product." } ], "affordances": [ "Check whether a proposed activity fits the recorded ESM definition and tasking.", "Attach emission observations to interpretations while preserving competing emitter hypotheses.", "Flag stale observations, coverage gaps and unsupported identity or location claims.", "Prepare an evidence-linked support summary for authorised review or dissemination.", "Route uncertain or consequential assessments to the responsible human authority.", "Revise or withdraw support products when their underlying evidence changes." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the concept in general terms from public doctrine and historical sources.", "Describe its role in arms control and spectrum regulation debates." ], "must_not": [ "Assist in intercepting, locating or targeting emitters for any party.", "Give operational methods, equipment settings or procedures.", "Help locate people through their radio emissions.", "Present civilian spectrum monitoring as military action or the reverse." ], "requires_human": [ "Any involvement in military or intelligence operations." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Locating emitters can lead to strikes on people, including civilians.", "Interception touches on privacy and communications secrecy." ], "affected_parties": [ "Civilians in conflict areas", "Military personnel", "Radio users" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The armed forces of the state that conducts it.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Misidentified emitters can lead to strikes on civilian targets.", "Interception can capture private communications." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Electronic warfare support measures are used in military operations to detect and interpret electromagnetic emissions associated with potentially relevant transmitters.", "Their outputs support situational awareness, threat recognition and operational decisions, with usefulness limited by coverage, signal ambiguity and identification confidence." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "AAP-06, issued by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, provides standardized military terminology that includes electronic warfare support measures." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Electronic warfare support measures are an activity whose identity cannot be established from visual appearance alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1327258: electronic warfare support measures", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1327258", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Electronic warfare support measures", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_warfare_support_measures", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "doctrine-and-tasking", "name": "Doctrine and tasking", "description": "Establish the meaning and operational mandate of the activity.", "rationale": "ESM cannot be recognised reliably from equipment or terminology alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "doctrinal-boundary", "name": "Doctrinal boundary", "description": "Record the authority-specific definition and its neighbouring concepts.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-support-definition", "name": "Attributed support definition", "description": "A US Marine Corps doctrinal glossary links electronic warfare support to commander-directed emission observation for immediate threat recognition; use this as an attributed reference, leaving equivalence with the registry term to research. Source: [MCWP 2-12 glossary](https://www.marines.mil/portals/1/Publications/MCTP%202-10B%20GN.pdf?ver=2019-01-31-111956-437).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority and document edition define electronic warfare support measures for this instance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-support-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Does that authority equate ESM with electronic warfare support, or assign it a narrower meaning?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-support-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-mandate", "name": "Support mandate", "description": "Connect the activity to a documented requirement and responsible authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "tasking-to-product-link", "name": "Tasking-to-product link", "description": "Require each activity to identify its supported decision, responsible authority and expected information product.", "questions": [ { "text": "What operational information requirement is this activity intended to satisfy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tasking-to-product-link-q01" }, { "text": "Who tasked the activity and who may approve changes to its purpose or coverage?", "kind": "action", "id": "tasking-to-product-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "emission-observation", "name": "Emission observation", "description": "Represent what was observed and the limits of the observation opportunity.", "rationale": "An intercepted emission and an inference about its source are different evidential objects.", "layers": [ { "id": "intercept-evidence", "name": "Intercept evidence", "description": "Preserve the observation record independently of later interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-emission-record", "name": "Traceable emission record", "description": "Record observation time, sensor reference, available signal descriptors and processing history without treating processed labels as direct measurements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which emission properties were measured and which were inferred by processing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "traceable-emission-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which observation record, sensor and processing version support the reported intercept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-emission-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-nondetection", "name": "Coverage and non-detection", "description": "Represent observation opportunities, interruptions and unknown coverage.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-absence-claim", "name": "Bounded absence claim", "description": "Require any conclusion based on non-detection to state the relevant collection coverage and known limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What time interval and electromagnetic coverage does this non-detection actually describe?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-absence-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which coverage gaps or collection limitations prevent interpreting silence as emitter absence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-absence-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "emitter-interpretation", "name": "Emitter interpretation", "description": "Manage source hypotheses and spatial claims derived from observations.", "rationale": "Recognition and localisation introduce distinct uncertainties that must remain visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-and-identity", "name": "Classification and identity", "description": "Separate signal grouping, emitter class, individual identity and platform association.", "findings": [ { "id": "competing-emitter-hypotheses", "name": "Competing emitter hypotheses", "description": "Represent proposed matches and alternatives with the reference material and reasoning used to distinguish them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence support an emitter class, an individual emitter, a platform association or only an unclassified observation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competing-emitter-hypotheses-q01" }, { "text": "Which reference-library version or independent evidence supports the proposed match?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competing-emitter-hypotheses-q02" }, { "text": "What competing identities remain consistent with the observation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "competing-emitter-hypotheses-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "spatial-assessment", "name": "Spatial assessment", "description": "State the type, time reference and uncertainty of source-location information.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-source-location", "name": "Qualified source location", "description": "Keep bearing-only information, bounded areas and position estimates distinct; retain uncertainty and observation time with each.", "questions": [ { "text": "What spatial claim is supported, in which reference frame and at what observation time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-source-location-q01" }, { "text": "How is location uncertainty represented, and what prevents a more precise claim?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-source-location-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "warning-and-relevance", "name": "Warning and relevance", "description": "Assess what an observation means for the supported recipient and how long that assessment remains useful.", "rationale": "Emission recognition alone does not establish threat status or continuing operational relevance.", "layers": [ { "id": "threat-interpretation", "name": "Threat interpretation", "description": "Separate observed behaviour from threat and intent judgments.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-bounded-warning", "name": "Evidence-bounded warning", "description": "Require warnings to identify their evidential trigger, uncertainty and applicable interpretation criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed properties support the warning, and which parts are contextual inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-bounded-warning-q01" }, { "text": "What benign, friendly or otherwise ambiguous explanations remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-bounded-warning-q02" }, { "text": "Who must review a warning when the evidence cannot distinguish those explanations?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-bounded-warning-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "information-freshness", "name": "Information freshness", "description": "Relate observation age and reporting delay to the intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-bounded-relevance", "name": "Time-bounded relevance", "description": "Record observation, assessment and delivery times separately, with a documented rule for reassessment or expiry.", "questions": [ { "text": "How old was the observation when assessed and when received by the supported user?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-bounded-relevance-q01" }, { "text": "What change or elapsed-time criterion requires this assessment to be reviewed or withdrawn?", "kind": "action", "id": "time-bounded-relevance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-products-and-control", "name": "Support products and control", "description": "Govern evidence preservation, product release and handoff to neighbouring activities.", "rationale": "An ESM assessment must remain traceable through dissemination without being mistaken for response authorisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-lineage", "name": "Assessment lineage", "description": "Track how observations become reports and how revisions affect earlier conclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "revisable-support-product", "name": "Revisable support product", "description": "Link each product to observations, interpretation versions and review status, including supersession and withdrawal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can each emitter, location and warning claim be traced to its supporting observations and assessment version?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "revisable-support-product-q01" }, { "text": "Which reports and recipients require correction if a source observation or emitter match is withdrawn?", "kind": "action", "id": "revisable-support-product-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "release-and-handoff", "name": "Release and handoff", "description": "Identify authorised recipients and the limits of downstream use.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlled-operational-handoff", "name": "Controlled operational handoff", "description": "Attach recipient restrictions, uncertainty and permitted use to released products; represent any subsequent response decision as a separate authorised activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recipients may receive this product, at what detail and under which recorded release authority?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-operational-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Which requested downstream action belongs to electronic attack, electronic protection, intelligence production or another neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "controlled-operational-handoff-q02" }, { "text": "What limitations must accompany the product so recipients do not interpret an assessment as an action authorisation?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-operational-handoff-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is a recall-based description; no sources or current doctrine editions were consulted.", "Check the intended national doctrine before treating ESM, electronic warfare support and electronic support as exact synonyms.", "Radar and communications ESM are useful distinctions, but formal subdivisions and performance requirements vary by service and platform." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Radar ESM", "Communications ESM" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Providing warning of radar illumination and other potentially threatening emissions.", "Supporting situational awareness by identifying and locating electromagnetic emitters.", "Informing the selection of protective measures and electronic countermeasures.", "Contributing emitter observations to intelligence analysis.", "Supporting maritime, airborne and ground surveillance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Frequency coverage", "typical_range": "System-dependent; no universal range", "unit": "Hz" }, { "quantity": "Direction-of-arrival error", "typical_range": "Dependent on antenna geometry, signal conditions and processing", "unit": "degrees" }, { "quantity": "Emitter location error", "typical_range": "Dependent on collection geometry and available observations", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Detection-to-report latency", "typical_range": "System- and mission-dependent", "unit": "s" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Silent, intermittent or difficult-to-intercept emitters can escape detection; absence of detection does not establish absence of a threat.", "Signal congestion, interference and receiver overload can conceal or distort emissions.", "Incomplete or outdated emitter libraries can cause missed identification or misclassification.", "Multipath propagation and unfavorable collection geometry can produce inaccurate bearings or locations.", "Deceptive emissions or mistaken attribution can lead to inappropriate operational responses." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Terminology varies by armed force and doctrinal generation: ESM is an established term, while United States doctrine also uses electronic warfare support, abbreviated ES; their precise scopes should be checked against the applicable doctrine." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Electronic warfare", "difference": "Electronic warfare is the broader activity; ESM supplies observations and threat information within it." }, { "name": "Signals intelligence", "difference": "The distinction rests principally on collection purpose, tasking and operational use rather than receiver hardware: ESM emphasizes immediate operational support, while signals intelligence serves intelligence requirements." }, { "name": "Electronic intelligence", "difference": "Electronic intelligence concerns intelligence derived from noncommunications electromagnetic emissions; radar ESM can observe the same signals but uses them for immediate operational support." }, { "name": "Electronic attack", "difference": "Electronic attack acts to disrupt, degrade or otherwise affect an adversary's capabilities; ESM detects and characterizes emissions." }, { "name": "Electronic protection", "difference": "Electronic protection preserves friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum; ESM provides information that can inform those protective actions." }, { "name": "Radar warning receiver", "difference": "A radar warning receiver is a device focused on radar threat warning; ESM is an activity that can employ broader interception, identification and location capabilities." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of electronic warfare support measures this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative definitions establish the relationship among electronic warfare support measures, electronic support measures and electronic or electromagnetic support across jurisdictions and editions?", "Does the registry intend ESM to include the full electromagnetic spectrum or a narrower usage associated with particular sensing systems?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this activity, requiring a registry link rather than a separate publication?", "Which operational criteria distinguish ESM from SIGINT when sensors, observations and personnel are shared?", "Which validated confidence, freshness and warning-quality conventions should be adopted for particular operational contexts?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 30 } }