National Maritime Interagency Advisory Group
The National Maritime Interagency Advisory Group (NIAG) is an interagency forum that organizes 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—as appropriate.
The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, as the Maritime Domain Awareness Executive Steering Committee (MDA ESC) executive secretary, manages the NIAG on behalf of the MDA ESC. The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office hosts 8–10 NIAG forums annually to provide timely solutions to MDA problems in direct support of the chair of the MDA ESC.