The United States can start by supporting the construction of a regional architecture for maritime domain awareness to deter adventurous behavior and allow governments to better police their shores.
He encouraged Gulf nations to move beyond bilateral relations with the United States in countering Iran, and offered as fertile areas of cooperation "shared early warning, cooperative air and missile defense, and maritime security awareness".
The lack of maritime domain awareness created the conditions where the two crises were able to develop and threatened the broader objective of the peace process in Mindanao.
The dialogue highlighted Washington's commitment to assist the Philippines in achieving a "minimum deterrent posture" alongside an improved maritime security awareness.
Plans are in place for future incremental improvements so when the project is fully realized, it will link more over a dozen stations and sensors, along with PCG vessels, to provide more enhanced maritime domain awareness in Philippine archipelagic waters and beyond.
providing equipment and infrastructure support to the Vietnamese coast guard, helping the Philippines build a National Coast Watch System to improve its maritime domain awareness, and conducting sea surveillance exercises with Indonesia which recently included flight portions over the South China Sea for the first time.
Once in effect, it would allow American forces to more regularly rotate through the island country for joint U.S.-Philippine military exercises, focusing on maritime security, maritime domain awareness, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
McHugh makes models of the endangered Mako shark and other aquatic creatures, like tiger sharks and sea turtles to raise awareness for maritime conservation.
The Maritime Heritage Foundation was established in 2010 to recover, preserve and display artifacts from the Victory and to promote awareness of British maritime heritage.
Hagel held extensive talks with Philippine President Benigno Aquino, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on the details of a new Framework Agreement that will allow US forces to operate on Philippine military bases and in Philippine territory and waters and to help build Philippine capacity in "maritime security and maritime domain awareness".
