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OTH-GOLD Maritime Reporting

Status: Planned

No adapter exists in gateway/src/formats/ yet. See the Status & Roadmap.

What it is

OTH-GOLD (Over-The-Horizon Targeting Gold) is a formatted-text message standard used by navies for reporting maritime contacts, tracks, and tactical information. Messages follow a structured telegram format with slash-delimited fields:

MSGID/TRACK RPT/UNIT NAME//
REF/A/MSGID/ORIGINATOR/DTG//
TRACK/TNO/LAT-LON/DTG/COURSE/SPEED/ALT/SOURCE//
NARRATIVE/FREE TEXT//

Key message types include track reports (position, course, speed of contacts), contact reports (initial detection of new entities), and engagement reports (weapons employment).

Bedrock's integration

Planned. No OTH-GOLD support exists yet. The existing ADatP-3 formatted-text export provides a pattern to follow: the intended approach is an OTH-GOLD message formatter in gateway/src/formats/ with file output for maritime track reporting.

Field mapping and the task breakdown live with the owning repo: gateway/docs/standards/oth-gold-maritime.md.

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