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Globalizing Maritime Awareness with Data Standards

Data standards enable real-time information sharing with international partners. This guest post by Alicia Belmas is about the application of data standards to support maritime information dominance. Interested in more data standards? Don't miss the Workshop on Info Sharing and Safeguarding Standards, or WIS3, on December 5th, 2011. Learn more.

Maritime Domain Awareness
Maritime Domain Awareness is an inter-agency and international effort to detect and prevent threats at sea or in any navigable waterway. Our success is dependent upon regional and global partnerships and information sharing among the U.S. maritime community of interest as well as our international partners.