Description

The Department of Defence and Security is organising this seminar on Maritime Situational Awareness

Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA) is the acquisition of a shared situational picture of the maritime environment in order to operate appropriately and effectively.

Changes in the international security environment have led to a shift in military action. Besides operating in the higher violence spectrum, the importance of crisis management operations has increased. This shift has led to the introduction of the concept of "Maritime Security Operations". This includes aspects such as counterterrorism, piracy or armed drug smuggling.

Information needs (Maritime Situational Awareness) have changed in the process, with the importance of information on "non-combatant" or "non-naval" (i.e. non-military) ships increasing. This leads to greater complexity to obtain and process the right information. Cooperation with civilian and other government agencies plays an important role here. Information is characterised by large amounts of data, which require specific analysis.

Led by countries such as the United States, France and Germany, NATO and EDA have recently taken the first steps towards fleshing out MSA.

At this theme evening, MSA will be outlined from the international and Dutch perspective by the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Netherlands Coast Guard. TNO, ESA, TU-Delft and industry (Thales Netherlands) will then address solution directions in several lectures and present how this challenge can be taken up.

The evening will conclude with a panel discussion, where the audience can actively participate on how to further shape MSA.

18:30 - 19:00 Receptionst
19:00 - 19:10 Introduction
19:10 - 19:35 Why MSA? (CZSK)
19:35 - 20:00 Maritime Awareness in the Netherlands (Coast Guard)
20:00 - 20:30 Pause
20:30 - 20:50 Poseidon Project (Thales)
20:50 - 21:10 Provision of information from space (ESA&TU-Delft)
21:10 - 21:30 Ongoing research at TNO (TNO D&V)
21:30 - 21:50 Panel discussion
22:00 - 23:00 Drinks

Location

Institute of Defence Studies

Brasserskade 227a, 2497NX The Hague

Organiser

Defence and Security

Maritime Engineering

KIVI Students Delft

Aerospace Engineering

Name and contact details for information

Leon F. Galle Ministry of Defence (DMO) Email: leon.Galle@hotmail.com or Jan Wind, Secretary KIVI NIRIA DV tel. 06-23502003 or email:

dv@kiviniria.nl