MDA
Abstract
The Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Program of Record portfolio contains capabilities which provide worldwide over-the-horizon vessel tracking and vessel data to the Intelligence Community (IC), Interagency, Combatant Commanders, Distributed Common Ground System-Navy DCGS-N), Navy Tactical Data Manager (NTDM), and foreign partner nations. On the classified data fabric, MDA capabilities are centered around SeaLink Advanced Analysis (S2A) which provides a correlated and fused surface track picture from IC sources known as the National All Source Fused Track Service (NAFTS) data feed via the Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS), which provides a track picture to IC systems including Fusion Analysis and Development Effort (FADE) Multi-Intelligence Spatial Temporal (MIST) and THRESHER Maritime. S2A also provides a web interface where users can visualize tracks and run analytics to show track histories, find anomalous vessel behavior, or patterns of life such as rendezvous at sea. S2A began as a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and is transitioning in FY20 to the MDA PoR. On the commercial unclassified internet, the Navy partnered with the Department of Transportation to leverage the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS) to create SeaVision, a non-public key infrastructure (PKI) information sharing tool used by the United States Indo-Pacific Command(INDOPACOM), European Command (EUCOM), and Africa Command (AFRICOM) nations to increase maritime security by sharing information. SeaVision's track picture is founded on commercially procured Automated Information System (AIS) data, with additional data from commercial geospatial data, and data contributed by partners such as costal AIS and costal radar. SeaVision is primarily accessed through a web front end where users can visualize tracks, and run a growing set of analytics. SeaVision also has Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for machine-to-machine data exchange with authorized systems. SeaVision was initiated by the Executive Agent for MDA office, which has since disestablished.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 2351_0304785N_5_1319_PB_2021
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