TNT Maritime Interdiction Operation Experiments: Enabling Radiation Awareness and Geographically Distributed Collaboration for Network-Centric Maritime Interdiction Operations [Preprint]

Abstract

The paper addresses technological and operational challenges of developing a global plug-and-play Maritime Domain Security testbed. This joint Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) project, supported by partners from Sweden, Austria, and Singapore is based on the NPS Tactical Network Topology (TNT) comprised of long-haul OFDM networks combined with self-forming wireless mesh links to radiation detection sensors, and real-time radiation awareness collaboration with geographically distributed partners. In the center of our discussion are networking, sensor, and collaborative solutions for the Maritime Interdiction Operation (MIO) Experiments in which geographically distributed command centers and subject matter experts collaborate with the Boarding Party in real time to facilitate situational understanding and course of action selection. The most recent experiment conducted in the San Francisco Bay jointly with partners from Sweden, Singapore, and Austria proved feasibility and good potential of the proposed key technologies aimed at improving MIO.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA481233

Entities

People

  • Alex B. Bordetsky
  • Andres Kilberg
  • Arden Dougan
  • Foo Y. Chiann

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Coast Guard
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Detectors
  • Explosives Detection
  • Mesh Networks
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Topology
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Radiation
  • Situational Awareness
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security