MDA
Abstract
The Maritime Domain Awareness project is a portfolio of partnerships that leverages the investments of other agencies in MDA tools and data, and funds the enhancement of those tools to meet Navy requirements for worldwide over-the-horizon vessel tracking and other MDA data in support of Distributed Common Ground System-Navy, Automated Identification System program of record, and MDA analysts across the whole of government. The MDA project manages the partnership with the Department of Transportation to leverage the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS) and SeaVision, an unclassified non-Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) information-sharing tool used by United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), European Command (EUCOM), Africa Command (AFRICOM), other USG agencies, and foreign partner nations to increase maritime security by sharing information. SeaVision produces a track picture based data contributed by MSSIS partners such as costal AIS and costal radar and augmented with commercially procured Automated Identification System (AIS) data, with additional commercial data from commercial geospatial data. SeaVision is a cloud-based system where users can visualize vessel tracks, access vessel information and run a growing set of analytics. SeaVision also has Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for machine-to-machine data exchange with authorized systems including the Navy's Automated Identification System program of record. The MDA project manages the partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to leverage the THRESHER Maritime system. THRESHER Maritime is a cloud-based system that provides over-the-horizon vessel tracking and analysis tools enhanced by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). The MDA project is working with NRO to enhance THRESHER Maritime capabilities to produce a correlated and fused track feed and provide it over the Integrated Broadcast Service and to provide THRESHER on both JWICS and SIPR net. Completion of these enhancements results in the decommissioning of legacy MDA tools SeaLink Advanced Analysis (S2A ). The MDA project manages the partnership with Distributed Common Ground System-Intelligence Community (DCGS-IC) for the classified cloud environment hosting of a testing environment for SeaLink Advanced Analysis. FY 2022 efforts for SeaVision include user driven and prioritized feature enhancements documented in the System Requirements Specification 6.0 which will be developed with the stakeholder community in FY21. Major capabilities include the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to improve analysis, integration of an object store graph database to enable Object Based Production and enhance interoperability with Office of Naval Intelligence Authoritative Maritime Services. These efforts also include back-end enhancements to the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS) to facilitate better data flow and improved data awareness. FY2022 efforts for THRESHER Maritime center on joint certification of a multi-Intelligence fused track data feed, engineering work to provide that feed to and through the Integrated Broadcast System (IBS), and testing of the IBS feed for units afloat and ashore. Other efforts include user driven feature enhancements to AI/ML driven analytics and improved training materials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 2351_0304785N_5_1319_PB_2022
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