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Mr. Brian Eggleston recently retired as the Portfolio Director for International Partnership at the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO). He had contributed to the improvement of both Aviation and Maritime Domain Awareness integration, having previously served as the founding Deputy Director of the National Aviation Intelligence Integration Office (NAI2O). Brian was assigned to NAI2O in March 2015 to stand up the new entity after over 5 years as the Strategic Engagement Department Head for NMIO where he led its outreach and communication programs. Prior to this he was the senior policy developer for the Global Maritime & Air Intelligence Integration (GMAII) section of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, supporting improved intelligence integration throughout the aviation, maritime, and transmodal transportation domains. All of his positions furthered the mission of dynamically integrating the Intelligence Community and improving information sharing efforts amongst U.S. federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; law enforcement; non-governmental organizations; academia; private industry; and international partners to create whole-of-nation unity-of-effort to improve aviation and maritime security.  Brian had joined NMIO following 25 years of active duty in the U.S. Air Force and Navy, 21 years of which included service as a tactical, operational, and strategic Naval Intelligence Officer and East Asia & Pacific Foreign Area Officer. Read more...

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Officials from the Officials from the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) shared their Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) expertise with the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) during U.S. Pacific Fleet-sponsored maritime analyst training in Thailand from 27 August to 6 September.  In partnership with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s Institute for Security Governance, the training certified senior RTN personnel as “Maritime Intelligence Analysts.” The course focused on fusion of information from across the Thai government to support MDA, orchestration of collection required for all-source analysis, and production of timely, tailored, and accurate assessments on maritime situations. The RTN Intelligence Professionalization Course featured a CAPSTONE multi-agency table-top exercise. NMIO partnered with the course facilitators to develop and execute an exercise that focused on developing multi-source collection plans, analysis and support to operational commanders during boarding operations that included identification of dark targets, ship-to-ship transfers and cooperation and information sharing with regional partners.

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Officials from the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) joined partners from Japan for the Ninth Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Dialogue on Space in Washington, DC, on August 26 and 27, 2024. This meeting was co-chaired by representatives from the Executive Office of the President’s National Space Council and National Security Council for the United States, and representatives of the National Space Policy Secretariat of the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Japan. Both sides exchanged views on a wide range of areas pertaining to outer space and gave updates on their respective space policies and strategies.

Principal  U.S. participants included the Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Transportation, and Interior; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and NMIO. Participants representing Japan included the National Space Policy Secretariat; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; National Security Secretariat; Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Ministry of the Environment; Ministry of Defense, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology); the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; and the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America.

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Officials from the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO), along with counterparts from 21 Indo-Pacific Allies. recently participated in the 23rd annual multilateral Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) Exercise. The exercise was structured to enhance collaboration and focused on the shared maritime security challenges of the region. Maritime security agencies and navies from across the region shared best practices in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) employment, planning and operations, and developments to improve collaborative ISR. The exercise featured Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) exercises performed by multiple nations aboard a contracted vessel used as a live training venue in a real-world at-sea environment. U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team members embarked the vessel and facilitated participants’ interdictions and boardings. Additionally, a second U.S. government-owned vessel was employed to simulate a so-called “dark” vessel transiting through Southeast Asia that participating agencies and navies were challenged to locate, track and report. NMIO participated in the information sharing phase of the exercise conducted at the Republic of Singapore Navy’s Information Fusion Center (IFC). The IFC served as a centralized hub for information sharing in the tracking of the two target vessels simulating suspicious vessels of interest. The exercise was a success examining top issues in maritime security in order to find collaborative solutions, foster dialogue between senior maritime security leaders, and improve the shared ability to sense in the maritime.

Nations included Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.  Non-military participants included members of EU Critical Maritime Route Wider Indian Ocean (CRIMARIO), Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), Maxar Technologies, Starboard Maritime Intelligence, SkyLight, Unseenlabs, Hawkeye 360, SeaVision, and the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. 

 

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National Training and Simulation Association's Congressional M&S Leadership Summit 2024 

The NMIO represented IC equities at the National Training and Simulation Association’s
Congressional M&S Leadership Summit 2024 (NTSA) discussed topics focused on the employment of
advanced technologies by US government, academia, and industry to keep ahead of disruptive change and
provide service to the nation through advanced M&S and AI tools.
 


FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initiative to Bolster Cybersecurity of U.S. Ports |The White House
The Biden-Harris Administration will issue an Executive Order to bolster the security of the nation’s ports.

 

Federal Register : Amending Regulations Relating to the Safeguarding of Vessels, Harbors, Ports, and
Waterfront Facilities of the United States

The Federal Register for the Daily Journal of the United States Government released by the Executive Order for amending
regulations related to the safeguarding of vessels, harbors, ports, and other waterfront facilities etc.

 

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The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) provides a national-level service to improve Global Maritime Community of Interest (GMCOI*) policy, increase data collection, broaden information sharing, enhance organizational
and analytic integration, and advance technology improvements for national-level priorities against threats to, from, and
in the global maritime domain.***

 

Responsibilities. As a Service of Common Concern (SoCC) NMIO is responsible for coordinating maritime information sharing and intelligence integration throughout the GMCOI and implementing the National Strategy for Maritime Security and its supporting
plans. Another responsibility is the Chair and Executive Secretariat for the Maritime Domain Awareness Executive Steering 

Committee (MDA ESC) in support of the National Security Council, Maritime Security Interagency Policy Committee.  NMIO enhances
GMCOI capability and capacity through five strategic mission integration tasks; NMIO does not conduct collection or perform analysis.

 

 

 

 

The mission of the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) is to advance maritime intelligence integration, information sharing, and domain awareness to foster unity of effort to protect the United States and its global interests, its allies, and its partners against threats to, in, or emanating from the global maritime domain.

 

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