Office of Global Maritime Situational Awareness

The Office of Global Maritime Situational Awareness (OGMSA) is a United States interagency office with a global reach tasked with enhancing global maritime domain awareness.

The focus of OGMSA is interagency coordination within U.S. federal, state and local governments, increased international cooperation and improved commercial cooperation – all to facilitate seamless maritime information sharing. OGMSA identifies the data owners and the information they can contribute, demonstrates how participation will be beneficial, resolves barriers to participation, and fosters development of the architecture, protocols and policies to make maritime information available and searchable.

Major Initiatives

• Global Maritime Information Sharing Symposium (GMISS)
• Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS)
• Maritime Domain Awareness Enterprise Hubs
• Interagency Investment Strategy Monitoring, Reporting and Coordination

References

• U.S. National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-41/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-13 (2004)
• U.S. National Strategy for Maritime Security (2005)
• U.S. National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness for the National Strategy for Maritime Security (2005)
• U.S. National Concept of Operations for Maritime Domain Awareness (2007)
• National Maritime Domain Awareness Requirements and Capabilities Working Group (2005) National MDA Study Interagency Investment Strategy