Maritime Information Sharing (MIS) – Regional Initiatives

NMIO Regional Maritime Information Sharing (MIS) initiatives are geographically-focused complementing each other and inculcating regional maritime data sharing as a habitual process.  MIS initiatives leverage existing binational and multinational Monitor, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) maritime data sharing, formal or ad-hoc, establishing more formalized information sharing protocols to counter Strategic Competition, such as economic predatory practices, Distant Water Fishing Fleet illicit behavior, Transnational Organized Criminal activity and identifying illicit actor-associated infrastructure in the maritime domain. 

• International partners that share contiguous coastal State waters (Territorial Waters / Economic Exclusion Zones), or maritime interests where illicit activity in one effects regional partner interests.
• U.S. departments and agencies with a maritime focus including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and Department of State.

• Advocate the use of common MDA tools, such as the Department of the Navy's SeaVision
• Country-specific to regional Vessels of Interest (VOI) list(s)
• Focus on entities benefiting from illicit maritime activity
• Expansion of VOI lists to include associated infrastructure (in-port and at-sea)