GROTON, Conn. – U.S. Coast Guard maritime dominance experts are surveying industry for enabling technologies to identify, alert, and track maritime targets conducting illicit activities at sea.
Officials of the Coast Guard Research Development Center in Groton, Conn., have issued a request for information (RDC26-01) for the Market Research for Maritime Domain Dominance Technologies/Services for Maritime Applications project.
Coast Guard experts are asking industry for detailed information on currently available technologies for persistent Maritime Domain Dominance (MDD), which integrates real-time sensor data across air, surface, space, and shore assets to enable rapid threat detection, decision-making, and action to control of U.S. waters.
Detect and identify
The Coast Guard seeks command-and-control capability to detect, identify, and understand what is happening across the ocean, and project force to deny the enemy's freedom of movement, and secure U.S. coasts. It aims to monitor 95,000 miles of coastline and four million square miles of exclusive economic zone for freedom of navigation and threat response.
Maritime dominance seeks capabilities for fast and accurate identification and warning of threats along U.S. borders and maritime approaches to enable the Coast Guard to control, secure, and defend those areas. The Coast Guard is looking for collection of capabilities to do this.
From industry, the Coast Guard wants to know how companies could contribute to ocean dominance. This consists of technical descriptions of proposed technologies and services; how the technologies and services work; how these technologies could help track vessels and identify potential threats; how to provide real-time situational awareness and actionable intelligence; and how to provide real-time data transmission of sensors into a common operational picture.
Blending sensor data
Coast Guard experts also want to know how industry could fuse diverse sensor data into one command-and control solution; improve probability of detection; blend cyber security into proposed solutions; integrate sensors and artificial intelligence (AI); and how proposed technologies and services could interoperate in classified and unclassified environments.
Companies interested should email responses no later than 2 Jan. 2025 to [email protected] and [email protected].
Email questions or concerns to the Coast Guard's Kiemisha Sweetney at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/7d8e3f37937b49e6b024c4a0abb22c1b/view.
