Maritime Environmental Security - US Pacific Command Maritime Fusion Cell Table Top, Manado, Indonesia

Start: 31 July 2018
End: 03 August 2018
Status: Confirmed
Indonesia

About This Event

Theme: Regional Maritime Environmental Security Information Sharing Workshop and Table Top Exercise

Goal: Strengthen capabilities to enhance maritime environmental security by identifying information sharing methods and techniques that are available to counter Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported fishing in the Indo-Pacific region.

Table Top Exercise: Development of techniques to track vessels in the maritime domain
focusing on fishery management zones, national parks, and the Sulu-Suluwesi seascape.
Develop an agreeable list of information data to share, media in which to share, and formulate
a plan to determine how security interdiction and response work both regionally, nationally,
and transboundary.

Fusion Cell Development: Provide examples of current fusion cells. Develop a list of best
practices. Develop structured analysis techniques for information fusion, and develop policies
and procedures for information sharing.

Objectives

  1. Identify effective unclassified sources of information to track and monitor vessels fishing
    or operating in marine protected areas.
  2. Establish links within and among maritime regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
  3. Identify the required information sharing policies and procedures necessary to develop
    an environmental security fusion cell.

Provisional Agenda

  1. Tuesday: Travel to Manado
  2. Wednesday: Workshop
  3. Thursday: TableTop Exercise
  4. Friday: Return Travel

Draft Agenda Workshop and TableTop Exercise

Day 1:

08.30 - 08.45: Registration
08.45 - 09.00: Picture
09.00 - 09.20: Introduction to Workshop and Administrative Remarks (Christopher Sholes, US Pacific Command)
09.20 - 10.00: Update and Details on Environmental Security Challenges - (CTI-CFF)
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee/TEA
10.30 - 11.15: State of IUU (CTI-CFF)
11.15 - 12.15: Lunch
12.15 - 12.45: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Indonesia
12.45 - 13.15: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Malaysia
13.15 - 13.45: Break
13.45 - 14.15: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Papua New Guinea
14.15 - 14.45: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Philippines
14.45 - 15.15: Break
15.15 - 15.45: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Solomon Islands
15.45 - 16.15: Fusion Center Briefing/Experiencing Combating IUU Fishing Timor-Leste
16.15 - 16.30: Closing Remarks

Day 2:

08.30 - 08.35: Administration, Remarks (PACOM)
08.35 - 09.00: Fusion Center Briefing (Thailand Maritime Enforcement Coordination Center - THAIMECC)
09.00 - 09.30: Maritime Domain Awareness (Dr. Chris Merritt, US Mission to ASEAN)
09.30 - 10.15: Fusion Center Development/Concepts/Purpose - National Fusion Center Association, Arlington, Virginia - http://www.nfcausa.org
10.15 - 10.45: Coffee/Tea
10.45 - 11.15: Introduction to TableTop Exercise (LCDR Baldin, US Pacific Command)
11.15 - 12.15: Lunch
12.15 - 12.30: TTX Overview (LCDR Baldin, US Pacific Command)
12.30 - 14.30: TableTop Exercise
14.30 - 15.00: Break
15.00 - 16.15: TTX Summary (All Participants)
16.15 - 16.30: Closing Remarks

Documents and Attachments

List of Attendances

(*) Need Confirmation

Venue

CTI-CFF Headquarters