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Navy’s MDA Effort To Provide Greater ID of Ocean-Going Threats

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Friday, November 16th, 2007

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By Geoff Fein Later next year, the Navy will launch the first spiral of its planned maritime domain awareness (MDA) effort that will initially link together the service, federal agencies and allies to provide a more robust picture of the maritime domain. The first spiral is dedicated to wiring together a variety of nodes, Deputy Under Secretary of Navy Marshall Billingslea recently told Defense Daily. Those nodes stretch from the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) to Hawaii, Australia,…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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