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AIS Technology Popular With Naval Forces, Navy’s MDA Chief Says

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Friday, October 9th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker As international navies and coast guards increase their data sharing and build more and deeper partnerships with one another, more naval forces are making use of technology that automatically provides basic information about large vessels operating near coastal waters and ports, thereby improving situational awareness in the maritime domain, the director of Maritime Domain Awareness for the U.S. Navy said yesterday. The data collected from the Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) provides a base level of information, such…

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