Interagency Collaboration for Maritime Domain Awareness

Interagency
Collaboration
for
Maritime
Domain
Awareness
 John
Mittleman,
PhD
 
 An
invited
presentation
at
the
 
 OGMSA
Meeting
on
Interagency
Collaboration
 14
APR
2010
Wednesday



 Ladies
and
Gentlemen,
distinguished
colleagues
–
 
 “Starting
with
the
end
in
mind”
–
a
phrase
often
used
as
the
notion
took
hold
that
 Strategic
Communications
and
Effects‐Based
Planning
were
inexorably
tied
 together,
perhaps
one
in
the
same
–
“starting
with
the
end
in
mind”
has
as
many
 meanings
as
audiences.

So
in
this
group
we’ll
take
“information
sharing”
as
far
as
 “decision‐making”,
which
is
short
of
the
take‐down,
the
arrest,
or
the
prosecution
of
 those
who
would
threaten
security:
local
security,
national
security,
global
security.
 



 So
the
context
for
my
remarks,
driving
toward
the
questions
“Why
do
we
need
to
 share
data?

What
data?
With
whom?

When?
and
How?”
are
predicated
on
my
view
 –widely
shared
–
of
the
“knowledge
management”
process.



 Data
–
the
raw
positions
or
signals
streaming
into
the
sensor,
through
some
data
 transmission
path,
an
to
the
front
door
of
a
fusion
engine.
 



 Information
–
the
result
of
fusing
data
from
numerous
sources
to
give
a
clear
picture
 of
who,
where,
when…
but
not
why.
 



 Knowledge
–
the
“why
things
are
happening
the
way
they
are”
may
have
to
take
into
 account:

the
weather
–
and
knowledge
that
big
ships
go
through
it,
small
ships
go
 around
it;
the
commodities
market
–
and
the
cost
of
berthing
versus
the
net
value
of
 the
cargo;
the
condition
of
port
infrastructure,
roads
and
rails;
and
warnings
to
 mariners,
to
name
a
few
of
the
factors
that
drive
maritime
activity
to
act
the
way
it
 does.
 
 
 
 BLANK
SCREEN
 
 I
would
argue
that
we’re
doing
pretty
well
at
data,
though
more
and
richer
data
is
 always
sought.

And
pretty
well
at
information,
though
better,
faster,
more
accurate
 fusion
of
more
kinds
of
data
is
a
key
enabler.

And
I
would
argue
that
the
leap
from
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