Broader Picture U.S. explores new data-collection technologies to get a more accurate view of maritime activity

摘要

The shrinking U.S. Navy cannot be everywhere at once. Even the navies of friendly nations banded together would have a hard time providing the detail of maritime domain awareness required by today's increasingly complex and disperse sets of seaborne challenges and potential threats.rnIn the near future, however, a highly detailed and extremely broad picture of what is happening on the world's oceans could be provided thanks to technologies being developed that would give merchant fleets the capability to gather Automatic Identification System (AIS) and radar contact information and send it back to a central database. From there, for example, it could be cross-referenced with classified intelligence to help detect anomalies.