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Air and Marine Vision Calls for Stronger Domain Awareness

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

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Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine (AMO) says it’s goal over the next nine years is to develop a domain awareness capability that better links its sensors and related assets to enable real-time information sharing.“AMO will share real-time, actionable information by linking a vast network of sensors and sensor-equipped aircraft and vessels through a thoroughly modernized Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC),” AMO says in its Air and Marine Operations Vision 2025 document. “By 2025, we will…

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