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Coast Guard Interested In Maritime Domain Awareness As A Service

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, February 7th, 2025

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Coast Guard Interested In Maritime Domain Awareness As A Service

Cutter Melvin Bell sails into Sector Key West in November 2023 for acceptance as the Coast Guard’s 55th fast response cutter. It will be homeported in Boston. U.S. Coast Guard photograph.

The Coast Guard is seeking candidates that can provide long-range persistent maritime surveillance as a service for its command centers to help in executing missions. The areas of interest for the maritime domain awareness service are in U.S. territorial waters to the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles out from the coast line, and would cover the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories. A Request for Information asks potential offerors to be able to provide a…

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