By Emelie Rutherford The Navy's nascent Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) effort reached a key milestone last week and is now able to track hundreds of thousands of vessels as part of the push to thwart nefarious activity on the world's waterways, a senior service official said yesterday. The MDA initiative--which grew out of President Bush's 2005 National Strategy for Maritime Security--links the Navy, federal agencies, and allies together through computer systems allowing them to monitor sundry vessels' activity. The Navy…
Navy’s Maritime Domain Awareness System ‘Up And Running’
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