Maritime Enhanced Engagement Initiative

The Maritime Enhanced Engagement Initiative (MEEI) is a partnership program with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Network of Fusion Centers that improves maritime information and intelligence sharing among the fusion centers and Federal Maritime Community partners to improve Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) for the Global Maritime Community of Interest—the U.S. Intelligence Community and non-Intelligence Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; academia; maritime commercial, defense, and science and technology industries; nonprofit and research institutes; and foreign partners. The MEEI is a key tool of the Regional Maritime Improvement Program.

The goal of MEEI is to provide a “maritime playbook” that outlines seven areas in a three-tier approach for enhancing maritime stakeholder engagement to develop and enhance partnerships among DHS field agencies, FBI field offices, other Federal Maritime Community partners, and the DHS-recognized National Network of Fusion Centers.

A copy of the July 2021 Federal Maritime Community and State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers Maritime Enhanced Engagement Initiative report may be requested using the Contact Us form.

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.