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Mullen, USN, adopted a progressive vision for the peacetime engagement of naval forces -- namely, to enhance the stability and security of the maritime environment. He called this vision "the 1,000-ship Navy." To help develop the concept, ADM Mullen asked the Naval Studies Board, under the auspices of the National Research Council, to establish a committee that would examine the technical and operational implications of the 1,000-ship Navy. In response to the emphasis in the study's terms of reference on the sharing of maritime information and on coordinated tactical action to help maintain order on the seas for all concerned, the committee has chosen to call this concept "maritime security partnerships" (MSP)
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More broadly, the committee envisions emerging maritime security partnerships to be grounded in international agreements like those for air traffic management, other law enforcement enterprises, financial transaction governance, and the safety of life at sea, with the last-mentioned coming under the IMO, an agency of the United Nations.
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Who will create and coordinate the policies behind the surveillance, information exploitation and distribution, and response plans? The unifying concept for maritime security partnerships is information sharing.
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Three critical elements are needed to achieve local, regional, or global success in establishing new maritime security partnerships or improving existing ones: • A cadre of trained, proactive specialists, military and civilian, who are able to operate linguistically and culturally in the context of U.S. planning and coordinating functions within the region; • Secure, persistent, and adequate funding for specific near-term opportunities for expanded military-to-military exchanges; and • A robust coordinating authority at the highest levels of the U.S.
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Recommendation 1: The Chief of Naval Operations, working with the combatant commanders, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should commit to transforming bilateral relationships into broader, more substantiative and inclusive maritime security partnerships through some or all of the following means: • Forward presence; • Increased language and cultural awareness; The Caribbean support tender is a U.S. ship dedicated to promoting cooperation with partner nations by visiting countries to conduct maritime training, maintenance assistance, and logistics support.
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and partner nation personnel so that they can support and extend maritime security partnerships, the Chief of Naval Operations should: • With the active support of the leaders of the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, ask the combatant commanders to support and extend maritime security partnerships through continued and even expanded formal educational and bilateral/multilateral training exercises for these personnel; • Require that maritime security training become a significant part of the core curriculum at every level of professional education for maritime service; The traditional four phases of a military campaign identified in Joint publications are deter/engage, seize initiative, decisive operations, and transition. Phase Zero encompasses all activities prior to the beginning of Phase I -- that is, everything that can be done to prevent conflicts from developing in the first place.
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Recommendation 4: The Chief of Naval Operations should ask the Coast Guard, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or another law enforcement entity to provide legal personnel for selected U.S. Navy ships.
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But at least for the initial period, the 1,000-ship Navy concept requires the Office of Management and Budget to scrutinize Navy programs and budgets not only to identify programs but also to include the funding needed for implementation of the MSP. Finding: Secure, continuing funding is a key ingredient for sustaining and deepening maritime security partnerships.
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• It is in the interest of both the United States and its partner nations to extend information sharing as widely as possible within regions, subregions, and beyond, noting that threats to security typically cross regional and subregional boundaries. • The related objectives of extending reach and maximizing inclusiveness suggest that both the information to be shared and the system architecture for its sharing must exhibit certain attributes: a focus on the sharing of unclassified information and on the use of commercial, Internet-based sharing mechanisms.
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infrastructure that would enable information sharing for maritime security. The activity called for by this recommendation would support combatant commanders, Navy operational elements, other U.S.
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and the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Communication Networks (N6) , and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition should direct the appropriate laboratories, system commands, and program executive offices to increase their efforts to investigate, analyze, and help field, if appropriate, the most cost-effective combinations of capability across the potentially promising approaches to persistent, improved broad ocean surveillance that are identified in Chapter 3.
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However, as reflected in Navy efforts ongoing as of this writing, there are commercial off-the-shelf and potentially releasable government off-the-shelf analysis and fusion tools and software that offer early, useful capabilities for maritime security partnerships. Recommendation 10: To leverage analysis and fusion technology and tools, the Chief of Naval Operations should assign the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Communication Networks (N6)
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Recommendation 11: The Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy should jointly propose a Navy-led and Navy-housed executive agent on the technical aspects of an information-sharing system for the U.S. interagency maritime security partnerships initiative.
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Recommendation 12: The Chief of Naval Operations should recommend the appointment of an independent third party such as a presidential commission on maritime security governance tasked to recommend ways of strengthening the nation's maritime security policy, to define the roles and responsibilities of various U.S. government agencies and departments to better implement maritime security partnerships both domestically and internationally, and to move forward as suggested in the 11 other recommendations of this report.
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