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Accession Number:
AD1046180
Title:
A Concept of Operations for an Unclassified Common Operational Picture in Support of Maritime Domain Awareness
Descriptive Note:
[Technical Report, Master's Thesis]
Corporate Author:
Naval Postgraduate School
Report Date:
2017-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
125
Abstract:
The maritime domain is an area of significant strategic concern to the United States and its allies. When the need arises, U.S. forces are able to detect and monitor vessels of interest VOIs in support of maritime interests throughout the world. However, current maritime domain awareness MDA processes lack the ability to provide actionable information in a timely and usable manner. Advances in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ISR technologyparticularly unclassified data sources, analytical processes and toolsavailable in the commercial sector could be leveraged to make MDA data more accessible and productive. The purpose of this thesis is to establish a concept of operations CONOPS that will provide an unclassified maritime common operational picture COP with the capability to produce near-real-time shareable information from which all authorized interested parties can benefit. The research focuses on utilizing available unclassified commercial-off-the-shelf COTS capabilities to create a scalable and extensible platform that provides intelligence analysts and decision makers the ability to gain additional situational awareness and gather actionable information that can be quickly and easily shared with other services and international partners. Additionally, in an effort to prove the proposed CONOPS will work, the process was attempted utilizing some of these technologies.
Distribution Statement:
[A, Approved For Public Release]
