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Maritime Domain Awareness Action Plan Calls For Information Sharing Architecture

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

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Maritime Domain Awareness Action Plan Calls For Information Sharing Architecture

Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. (Photo. U.S. Navy)

The White House on Monday released a new action plan that supports the nation’s Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) strategy and directs the establishment of a national enterprise architecture around information sharing across all levels of federal, state and local government. The enterprise architecture could include “enterprise, web-centric, cloud-based, information and services, common data standards, and data access policy,” says the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan (NMDAP), which merges two earlier plans and is one of seven implementation plans that support…

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