Integrate International Maritime Partners

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The 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS) prioritizes international freedom of navigation and upholding international laws and norms, including the customary international law rules in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The NSS states that our global alliances and partnerships are our most important strategic asset and an indispensable element contributing to international peace and stability. Therefore, it is a NSS priority to build the strongest possible coalition of nations to enhance our collective influence to shape the global strategic environment and to solve shared challenges.

To advance these global priorities, the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) applies NSS best practices such as:

· Integration across domains, both military (land, air, maritime, cyber, and space) and nonmilitary (economic, technological, and informational).
· Integration across regions, understanding that our competitors combine expansive ambitions with growing capabilities to threaten U.S. interests in key regions and in the Homeland.
· Integration with allies and partners through investments in interoperability and joint capability development, cooperative posture planning, and coordinated diplomatic and economic approaches.

Learn more about NMIO’s initiatives and activities to integrate international maritime partners:

Canada–United States Maritime Domain Awareness Partnership

Critical infrastructure initiative

Five Eyes Maritime Domain Awareness Partnership

Global Maritime Forum

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing Initiative

Maritime Information Sharing initiatives

Maritime Operational Threat Response

National Maritime Interagency Advisory Group

Polar integration initiative

Undersea and Seabed Initiative

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.