An Interagency and Integrated Initiative

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The NPS Maritime Domain Protection Task Force
An Interagency and Integrated Initiative
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ASD(HD) Leveraging NPS to Provide Potential
Solutions

• Define, design, and potentially implement a
  national Maritime Domain Protection System that
  includes a vulnerability assessment, concept of
  operations across multiple lines of defense and
  domains, and coordinated through a national
  command and control system.

FOCUS War-fighters perspective to dissuade,
deter, preempt, interdict, or defeat threats and
aggression as early and as far from US borders as
possible.
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Why MDP TF at NPS?

• Operationally experienced students from DoD and
  DHS focused on applying graduate education
  towards national complex issues
• Diverse, talented faculty with background in
  interdisciplinary approach to DoD problems
• Secure research environment
• (highest levels)
• No institutional bias
• Base for long-term effort
• (low faculty turn-over rate)

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Stakeholder Participation Required
OSD
NORTHCOM
USN
DHS
NAVNORTH
Unified Commands
SOCOM
State Department
USCG
Customs
ONI
DOT
Commercial Shipping
Allies (Canada)
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Faculty and Student Pool

• Intelligence
• National Security
• Computer Science
• Systems Engineering
• Information Science
• Operations Research
• Defense Analysis (SOLIC)
• Modeling and Simulation
• Meteorology and Oceanography
• Business
• Applied Physics
• Transportation

• US Navy
• US Coast Guard
• US Army
• US Air Force
• Special Operations
• (All services)
• Civilian
• (Federal, State and Local)

Other Educational and Civilian Research
Institutions
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NPS MDP TF Organization
DoD Stakeholders
Dr. Paul Stockton Director, Center of Homeland
Security, NPS
Maritime Domain Stakeholders
CAPT Jeff Kline, USN Lead, MDP TF
LTC Saverio Manago Lead MDP Lab
Dr. Tom Huynh Lead, Systems Engineering Effort

Ms. Kathie Cain Administrative Faculty Ms. Ann
Wells Information Manager/EA
Vulnerability Assessment CAPT Steve Ashby, USN
Dr. Hersch Loomis and Dr. Magdi Kamel MDA Effort
Dr. Ken Davidson Lead, Applied Technology (METOC)
MDP Library Secure Depository
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Near-Term Goals (8-15 months)

• Vulnerability Assessment
• As Is System Architecture Description
• Needs and Requirements Document
• Maritime Domain Protection Modeling and Gaming
  Laboratory Build
• Coordinate Research with Maritime Domain
  Awareness Development

FOCUS War-fighters perspective to dissuade,
deter, preempt, interdict, or defeat threats and
aggression as early and as far from US borders as
possible.
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Research and Thesis Opportunities

• Vulnerability Assessments
• National Command and Control Structure
• International Waters Intercept and Defeat CONOPS
  development
• Shipping and Container Industry initiatives and
  cooperation opportunities
• Data Mining, Storage, and Fusion
• Port Infrastructure
• Allied Opportunities

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NPS MDP TF POC
CAPT Jeff Kline, USN Naval Postgraduate
School Phone [phone] E-mail
jekline_at_nps.navy.mil Siprnet klineje_at_nps.navy.smi
l.mil
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Mid-Term Goals (12 - 30 months)

• Draft proposed National Maritime Domain
  Protection Architecture with Concept of
  Operations and Command Structure
• Test proposal in interagency/joint war game
• Developed MDP Library Base for classified
  interagency reference
• Begin Port Infrastructure Analysis in relation to
  support of U.S. force projection
• Extend current data mining and fusion techniques
  and systems based on requirements generation
• Coordinate Research with Maritime Domain
  Awareness Development

FOCUS War-fighters perspective to dissuade,
deter, preempt, interdict, or defeat threats and
aggression as early and as far from US borders as
possible.
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Long-Term Goals (30 - 60 months)

• Refine and implement National MDP Concept of
  Operations
• Continue use of MDP Lab and War Gaming Facility
  to test Unified Commands Maritime CONOPS
• Developed automatic data mining and fusion
  systems for multi-level security access
• Evaluate alternative platform capabilities for
  MDP
• Complete Port Infrastructure Analysis in relation
  to support of U.S. force projection
• Coordinate Research with Maritime Domain
  Awareness Development

FOCUS War-fighters perspective to dissuade,
deter, preempt, interdict, or defeat threats and
aggression as early and as far from US borders as
possible.