MDA

Abstract

Maritime Domain Awareness is the effective understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy or environment. MDA objectives include the persistent monitoring of and ability to access and maintain data on vessels, cargo, people, and infrastructure; and the ability to collect, fuse, analyze, and disseminate information to decision makers to facilitate effective understanding. This initiative will identify, develop and transition data fusion and mining, replication, sharing and assessment tools to achieve MDA across the non-classified, unclassified and classified enclaves. Additionally, MDA will ensure capability integration with related activities and sites (both technologies and facilities). This warfighting enhancement is designed to achieve an all-source MDA capability, leveraging existing MDA initiatives in the developmental phase and ensuring the best products transition to strategic, operational and tactical users as well as further development of MDA prototypes. The products will support all-source data fusion, development and replication of MDA related data gathered in various operations such as Expanded-Maritime Intercept Operations (E-MIO), sharing information with allies, and developing subject matter expertise and assessment tools to achieve MDA and enhance operational decision making. In FY11 funding supports the following efforts: planned enhancements to Spiral One Prototype (SP1P) and fielded capabilities; development of MDA enterprise wide alerting capabilities and integration with C2 decision support systems; Verification and Validation (V&V) testing; development regression and acceptance testing and transition of the E-MIO systems to applicable Programs of Records (PORs); continuation of pre-acquisition activities for the Maritime Fusion and Analysis (MFAS) and End to End MDA ( E2E MDA) Increments as they move into the Technology Development phase. FY09 funding is located in Project Unit 9123. Funds realigned from Project Unit 9123 beginning in FY2010.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
2351_0604231N_5_1319_PB_2011

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