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RADM Mike Brookes, Director of the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, participated in the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) panel at the Maritime Risk Symposium. The MDA panel focused
on information sharing with allies and partners, data normalization and curation, and artificial intelligence / machine learning.
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From left to right: RADM Megan Dean, Commander, USCG Dist. 17; CAPT Steve White, USCG (Ret.), Executive Director, Marine Exchange of Alaska; Art Dahlin, VP and Alaska General Manager, TOTE Marine Alaska; and Mick Bradway, Resource Evaluation Division, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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From left to right: Andrew Curry, Assistant Director, Government Accountability Office; CAPT Jason Ryan, USCG, Chief of Operations, USCG Pacific Area; Hunter Stires, Maritime Strategist, Office of the Secretary of
the Navy; Lawrence Walzer, NPS, Chair, Maritime Grey Zone Research Task Force; and Col. Raymond Powell, USAF (Ret.), Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center.
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From left to right: RADM Matt Bell, USCG (Ret.);
CAPT Eric “Coop” Cooper, USCG (Ret.); Scott Blough, Mandiant, Google Cloud; CAPT John Kaskin, USN (Ret.); Stan Gold, USCG Atlantic Area, Strategic Advisor; and Don Brutzman, Ph.D., NPS.
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The Maritime Risk Symposium (MRS) 2024 was held on 11-13 June at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. The MRS is a 3-day conference in which government and maritime industry leaders, port representatives, researchers, and solution providers convene to examine current and emerging threats to maritime security. This years’ focus was Grey Zone (GZ) threats in the Arctic resulting from great-power competition. The Symposium consisted of seven panels followed by two concurrently run workshops. The panels covered: (1) Past Present Future of Tri-Service Maritime Strategy, (2) Maritime Domain Awareness and Tri-Service Collaboration, (3) Maritime Policy via a vis the National Maritime Strategy, (4) Maritime Cyber and Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration, (5) Understanding Maritime Risk amidst GZ Conflict, (6) Multi-Service and Maritime Industry Collaboration in the Arctic, and (7) Symposium Wrap-Up. The workshops included the Evergreen Pinecone Workshop as well as a Maritime GZ Exploration Workshop. Evergreen Pinecone, in support of the US Coast Guard (USCG) long term strategic planning effort to identify emerging challenges and future trends, addressed the risks arising from the increasing USCG presence around the world, including the Arctic, as well as its likely being called on to counter substantial and growing use of GZ tactics by rival nations. The Maritime GZ Exploration Workshop addressed how a diverse group of stakeholders might ensure leaders make effective decisions in conditions of uncertainty, what capabilities might be needed, and how the sea services and maritime industry might best collaborate to mitigate risks associated with conducting operations and countering GZ operations in the Arctic.
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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.