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NMCO Vision

A Worldwide Maritime Information Exchange to Facilitate User-Defined Decision Making.

Mission

The Mission of the Director National Maritime Domain Awareness Coordination Office is to facilitate the creation of a collaborative global, maritime, information sharing environment through unity of effort across entities with maritime interests. In order to achieve Global Maritime Situational Awareness, we must increase the discoverability and share-ability of information relevant to those engaged in managing the security, safety, environment and commerce associated with the maritime domain. This mission is reflected in the following strategic goals:

  • Make maritime related information available to enable accurate, dynamic and confident decision making.
  • Make information searchable.
  • Facilitate development of a dynamically tailorable, network-centric virtual information grid.
  • Facilitate the improvement and alignment of resources, capabilities, and activities related to global maritime situational awareness.
  • Maritime Domain Awareness: An effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy, or environment of the United States. (Source: National Plan to Achieve MDA)
  • Global Maritime Situational Awareness: Results from the persistent monitoring of maritime activities in such a way that trends and anomalies can be detected. (Source: National MDA CONOPS)
  • National Maritime Domain Awareness Coordination Office (NMCO): Acts as catalyst for and among all maritime entities to make information available and searchable, by advocating standards and protocols.

Desired End State

An environment where partners can embrace and achieve the common objective: to obtain and share information as a mechanism to increase transparency, safety, security and economic prosperity in the maritime domain and have the supporting architecture to do so.

Goals & Objectives

  • Lead U.S. government collaborative effort to ensure access to maritime information and data critical to building maritime situational awareness component of MDA.
  • Create open forums to enhance understanding, encourage global partnerships, develop shared perspectives, and achieve unity of effort.
  • Promote an information-sharing architecture founded upon net-centric principles.

This page was last updated on May 18, 2010.