The Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce

2014 ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Pullen ◽  
Michael Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Hf Radar ◽  
Government Leadership ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
Near Shore ◽  
Acoustic Technologies ◽  
Maritime Domain Awareness

The DHS National Center of Excellence in Maritime Security's (CSR) Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) work develops and applies emerging technologies in support of layered surveillance. The layers include satellite-based wide area views, HF Radar systems providing over-the horizon situational awareness, and near-shore and harbor sensing utilizing underwater acoustic technologies. Integration of these systems accomplishes vessel detection, classification, identification, and tracking. Applications for end-users including U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have demonstrated the delivery of actionable information in operationally relevant settings. The Center won the DHS S&T impact award two years in a row for its role in providing vital data during the US Airways plane landing on the Hudson River and during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Furthermore, research in port resiliency has yielded a port disruption planning tool, the Port Mapper, that assisted government leadership during the closure of the Port of NY/NJ by Hurricane Sandy. Work at the Center is focused on delivering MDA data streams from emerging and advanced technologies into the hands of the operators in ways that are compatible with command decision support systems.

M/V TONG CHENG: SAFE ASSURANCE, SAFE HAVEN, SAFE RESULTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 1051-1055
Author(s):  
K. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Marine Traffic ◽  
Near Shore ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
To Come ◽  
Unified Command

ABSTRACT On January 12, 2007 the MIV TONG CHENG, a 485 ft. Chinese flag break bulk vessel loaded with cargo and 130,000 gallons of oil, en route to the Panama Canal, notified Coast Guard Sector Honolulu that it had suffered damage to its #2 cargo hold and the hold was full of seawater. Located 700 miles from the nearest port (Honolulu), the vessel'S pumps were unable to keep up with the flooding, and with 26 personnel on board, the vessel advised it was diverting to Honolulu for emergency repairs. As the vessel proceeded toward Honolulu, its decreasing speed, the presence of two additional cargo ships in escort and the discovery of an oil sheen trailing the vessel raised significant concerns over the threat this posed to Hawaii. At stake in allowing the vessel a safe haven were the pristine shorelines of the Hawaiian Islands and potential crippling of the port'S vital lifeline to commercial marine traffic, its only source of sustenance. A myriad of issues had to be addressed as the vessel made preparations to come into Honolulu Harbor and a multi-agency, international Unified Command was established. The Unified Command, using the Incident Command System, managed the various contingencies from search and rescue of the crew if the ship were lost, to the potential discharge of 130,000 gallons of fuel. A risk-based decision process was employed to weigh the off-shore response challenges against the near-shore risks while taking into account the remoteness and sensitive marine environment of the Hawaiian Islands. This paper provides insight into the dynamic and complex response and the incident management teams decisions regarding allowing this vessel in distress to enter a critical and environmentally sensitive port. The vessel was successfully repaired and allowed to depart Hawaii. This case is a classic example of proper decision making and risk balancing for a critical safe refuge request.

Crisis Response and Management Following Hurricane Sandy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 299895
Author(s):  
Annjea M. Cormier
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Pollution Mitigation ◽  
National Response ◽  
The Right

The United States Coast Guard responded to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey under the National Response Framework's Emergency Support Function 10 Oil and Hazardous Material Response. Based on countless lessons learned; decisive response leadership is required in the initial response to build operational momentum, and establish interagency coordination. The Hurricane Sandy Pollution Response is a stellar example of how the initial actions shaped the direction and effectiveness of the rest of the response. This poster will emphasize how the leadership asked the right questions, referred to the right plans, set the right priorities and included the right partners. Additionally, it will identify the protocols that were established to execute Pollution Mitigation. The regional and area contingency plans provided supporting mechanisms and structure for multi-agency cooperation. Due to the extent of the wide spread damage pollution reporting to the National Response Center was disrupted and remained ineffective at a local level until the impacted shoreline communities were reconstituted. The Unified Command conducted wide-area assessments by aerial observers, boat operations and field personnel to quantify and assess the pollution threats from thousands of sources. The Operations Section of the Incident Command utilized Emergency Response Management System Application (ERMA) to develop the common operating picture and prioritize threats based on environmentally sensitive areas. During Hurricane Sandy, critical decision making allowed the response organization to oversee 1,500 contracted personnel, over 1,245 miles of shoreline, and mitigated 439 potential/active pollution threats. The poster will include the Response Time-line, Response Doctrine, ICS Implementation, Key Decisions, Pollution Mitigation protocols and National Strike Force Boat Operations.

India’s Evolving Maritime Domain Awareness Strategy in the Indian Ocean

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darshana M. Baruah
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Analyst ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Defence Cooperation ◽  
Tracking Surface ◽  
Strategic Autonomy ◽  
Maritime Domain Awareness ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration

Darshana Baruah, an emerging Indian maritime security analyst, examines India’s heightened focus on improving maritime domain awareness in the coastal domain, EEZ and far seas. This is increasingly being driven by growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean. Of particular concern is India’s ability to monitor the passage of PLA Navy submarine passages to Pakistan and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. Despite improved maritime situational awareness in coastal waters, India still has difficulty in tracking surface and subsurface vessels transiting its EEZ or neighbouring waters. This will likely require coordination and collaboration with friendly states. Baruah concludes that despite India’s traditional attachment to strategic autonomy, the difficulties in any one country developing maritime domain awareness across the Indian Ocean will be a key driver in greater defence cooperation with the United States and its allies.

Performance Evaluation of SeaSonde High-Frequency Radar for Vessel Detection

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh J. Roarty ◽  
Erick Rivera Lemus ◽  
Ethan Handel ◽  
Scott M. Glenn ◽  
Donald E. Barrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Processing Parameters ◽  
Hf Radar ◽  
High Frequency Radar ◽  
Detection And Tracking ◽  
Surface Vessels ◽  
Wave Radar ◽  
Vessel Detection ◽  
Track Surface ◽  
Maritime Domain Awareness

AbstractHigh-frequency (HF) surface wave radar has been identified to be a gap-filling technology for Maritime Domain Awareness. Present SeaSonde HF radars have been designed to map surface currents but are able to track surface vessels in a dual-use mode. Rutgers and CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd., have collaborated on the development of vessel detection and tracking capabilities from compact HF radars, demonstrating that ships can be detected and tracked by multistatic HF radar in a multiship environment while simultaneously mapping ocean currents. Furthermore, the same vessel is seen simultaneously by the radar based on different processing parameters, mitigating the need to preselect a fixed set and thereby improving detection performance.

Understanding the Keys to Effective Information Management and Situation Display During a Pollution Response

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 1596-1606
Author(s):  
Jill Bodnar ◽  
Michele Jacobi ◽  
Ed Bock ◽  
Eric Doucette ◽  
Judd Muskat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Data ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT As technology and access to information increases, so do the expectations by leadership and the public for the highest quality and most current information during a pollution response (USCG, 2010). This demand is essential to the incident's decision-making process and for situational awareness (USCG, 2010, 2011a). The influx of response data generated must be met by savvy teams of information managers who can provide this need in a timely, efficient manner. This process is further complicated by the relationship between government and industry responders, both of whom often have different information management requirements yet need to work cooperatively with the same data (USCG, 2011b). In this paper, information management common themes, successes, and failure points from three case studies including the M/V Cosco Busan oil spill, the Hurricane Sandy pollution response, and the U.S./Canada CANUSLANT oil spill exercise are discussed. Although these incidents and exercise have significant operational differences, the need for efficient dissemination of quality information remains the same.

Makah IndianTribe – U.S. Coast Guard Memorandum of Agreement A Model for Meaningful Tribal-Federal Engagement

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 300663
Author(s):  
Chad Bowechop ◽  
Andrew Connor ◽  
Scott Knutson ◽  
Heather A. Parker ◽  
LCDR Lance Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Indian Tribe ◽  
Work List

On 12 April 2013, the Makah Tribal Council Chairman and the District Commander of the 13th Coast Guard District (D13) signed into effect the “Memorandum of Agreement between the United States Coast Guard and the Makah Indian Tribe Regarding Interoperability and Coordination”. The purpose of this “Makah-USCG MOA” is to establish terms by which the two parties will coordinate and collaborate in the fulfillment of their mutual trust responsibility. The MOA's focus is to enhance consultation, improve leveraging of resources within each party's authorities, and improve collective all-hazards prevention and response posture in the Makah Treaty Area. Such an agreement between a federal agency and an Indian tribe is authorized by Executive Order 13175 - Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments, signed in 2000 and is consistent with the 2011 Department of Homeland Security Tribal Consultation Policy. This groundbreaking document represents a 20 year relationship between key members of the Makah Tribe and the oil spill response members of CG D13 and Sector Puget Sound, and the trust developed over that period while working together to mutually support each party's oil spill prevention, preparedness and response readiness, as well as the desire to help and support each other by harmonizing efforts. With recent legislation such as the 2010 Coast Guard Authorization act, authorizing resources to engage tribes into training, exercises and other spill response preparedness activities particularly in the Northwest, it became clear there was a need to memorialize the strong supportive working relationship between the Makah and the CG, and provide some structure to our planning and development efforts. The MOA lays out a minimum of semi-annual meetings during which the two parties discuss overarching items of mutual interest and determine a work list of concrete, achievable goals to complete within the next 6 month period. An initial work list of common interest issues and responsibilities are outlined in the MOA, and fall into three general categories: Prevention; Preparedness and Response. The MOA also addresses the importance of Communication with the goal of enhancing mutual situational awareness via improved communication protocols between the Coast Guard and the Makah Tribe.

Enhancing Preparedness and Response ≈ Transition Management Architecture Improvements

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 2017100
Author(s):  
Tracy Ferguson ◽  
CAPT Anthony Lloyd ◽  
Jon Turban
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Technology Change ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Vessel Response ◽  
Response Plan ◽  
Day To Day Operations

Experts continue to debate about the range of threats that could realistically occur in America today. Disagreements range through the prevention, preemption, and response strategies with advocates continuing to argue for robust “whole-of-government” capabilities to muster and effective response. The debate is complicated by the increased societal churn driven by the changing popular culture, intense effects of technology change and impacts from social media and the 24 hour news cycle. Whether you can hear it, or see it, or not, the truth remains regarding an underlying latency of increased risk in our society. Further compounding this is the change in the oil economy. Latent risk has risen there as well, challenging current preparedness efforts. Increased flexibility, transitional success, better data sharing methods, and deeper situational awareness is needed for planning, preparedness, and response success. Coast Guard legal authorities are foundational in this regard especially as it relates to the proper apportionment of National Contingency Plan resources. The Coast Guard Vessel Response and Facility Response Plan regulations reflect an appropriate effort to assure the retention and allocation of those resources to meet preparedness and response requirements. How can we be sure, however, that this “force lay down” is effective? Can those resources be better accessed to support NCP requirements? This poster will depict a way to envision better transition of VRP/FRP resources. It will also explain a capability and architecture developed to ease the rapid shifts from day-to-day operations to a rapidly expanding crisis.

scholarly journals Crisis Decision-Making During Hurricane Sandy: An Analysis of Established and Emergent Disaster Response Behaviors in the New York Metro Area

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Chandler ◽  
David M Abramson ◽  
Benita Panigrahi ◽  
Jeff Schlegelmilch ◽  
Noelle Frye
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
New York State ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Public Health Staff

AbstractObjectiveThis collective case study examined how and why specific organizational decision-making processes transpired at 2 large suburban county health departments in lower New York State during their response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The study also examined the relationships that the agencies developed with other emerging and established organizations within their respective health systems.MethodsIn investigating these themes, the authors conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with 30 senior-level public health staff and first responders; reviewed documentation; and moderated 2 focus group discussions with 17 participants.ResultsAlthough a natural hazard such as a hurricane was not an unexpected event for these health departments, they nevertheless confronted a number of unforeseen challenges during the response phase: prolonged loss of power and fuel, limited situational awareness of the depth and breadth of the storm’s impact among disaster-exposed populations, and coordination problems with a number of organizations that emerged in response to the disaster.ConclusionsPublic health staff had few plans or protocols to guide them and often found themselves improvising and problem-solving with new organizations in the context of an overburdened health care system (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:436–442).

AIS The Cornerstone of National Security?

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay A. Creech ◽  
Joseph F. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
International Maritime Organization ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Automatic Identification System ◽  
The Us ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Maritime Domain Awareness

The International Maritime Organization has mandated carriage requirements for VHF Automatic Identification System (AIS) on vessels over 300 tons by 2007 (IMO SOLAS: 1974 and IMO Resolution MSC.99(73)). The AIS will transmit a vessel's position and voyage data to other AIS-equipped vessels and shore-based authorities. It was envisioned that AIS data could enhance the safety of navigation by allowing vessels to quickly identify each other and use Digital Select Calling (DSC) to arrange maneuvers. We will discuss the history and the development of AIS, the technical issues surrounding its use by the mariner as a navigation tool and the pros and cons of the proposal by the US Coast Guard (USCG) to use AIS as a means of surveillance for Maritime Domain Awareness.

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