Conference on « Safe Seas: can an Integrated Maritime Surveillance be achieved by the EU? » EESC - Brussels, 24 March 2015

2 Paulo SOARES Project Officer Maritime Programmes EUROPEAN DEFENCE AGENCY Capability, Armaments & Technology Directorate Maritime Domain Captain PT Navy MSc. Applied Physics Tel: +32(0)

The necessity of Maritime Situational Awareness … What for ? 3

Most of the time awareness means : Trying to know everything, leading to overload ! 4

Unfortunately we are more focused on the connectivity rather than on the substance we get from networks Changing minds : from a « need to know » to a « need to share » 5

6 Some merchant ships around EU every day MARITIME SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ? 6

Real time maritime awareness capabilities : presence of means NEED OF FOCUS 7

THE BASIN APPROACH Channel Baltic North Sea Atlantic West Med East Med Choke points and 8

Marsur: A Pragmatic Approach… 9

State of play 18 Member States = 128 connections + + ? 10

MARSUR Networking via MEXS - Maritime Exchange System Service & Information Exchange MS Different National Maritime Surveillance Systems (NMSS) Critical in multinational networks since changes in national services are the rule, not the exception! 1.The MEXS simplifies the NMSS connection to the network 2.The MEXS provides a generic interfaces towards different national services  Each member can freely upgrade or change his service provider behind the MEXS.  Upgrade or changes are without effect on the other members. 11

MARSUR Functional Services Create a Standardized Federated Network Enabled Capability The functional services are based on open information sharing standards best practices, lessons learned created for example within the MNE-Series (Multinational Experiment) Many of the standards used are based on work within the NATO TIDE Sprint Forum (Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts, the NATO Vector Graphics specification, and Battle Space Objects) The standards are already widely used for various information sharing domain MARSUR federal functionnal services TRACK NOTIFICATION VESSEL QUERY VIDEO Collaboration services Chat File sharing VOIP SECURE NETWORK VPN 12

Commander Pasi Staff, Navy Command Finland, NORTHERN REGION WESTERN REGION SOUTHERN REGION REGIONAL APPROACH SAFETY OF MARITIME TRAFFIC SAFETY OF MARITIME TRAFFIC SAFETY OF MARITIME TRAFFIC ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TERRORISM MARSUR 13

THE EU COMMISSION CISE Project: -Inter-agency Approach -Including 5 functionalities -MARSUR is intended to be the Military node of CISE 14

Acquisition Fusion Extraction Dissemination Correlation and Analysis RMP How do we deliver relevant information to those who need it? 15

Thank you for your attention! EESC - Brussels, 24 March 2015