Maritime Operational Threat Response Center : The Missing Piece in the National Strategy for Maritime Security / by John J. Gordon

• The United States is developing a unified strategy to manage Maritime Security. The task requires coordination of a number of U.S. Government agencies and coalition partners. The Maritime Operational Threat Response (MOTR) plan is designed to coordinate the response across multiple agencies. Coordination of the response to a Maritime Operational Threat is done via virtual collaboration across the MOTR agencies. This organizational arrangement is less than optimal. The United States requires a single operational command center to synthesis, coordinate, and direct the operational response to threats in the Maritime Domain. This paper describes the advantages of a Maritime Operational Threat Response Center to coordinate the response to threats from the Maritime Domain. 

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Government and Political Science

Surface Transportation and Equipment

Civil Defense

Unconventional Warfare

*UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

*THREATS

*ATTACK

*RESPONSE

*TERRORISM

*PORTS(FACILITIES)

*SHIPPING

NATIONAL SECURITY

VULNERABILITY

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

MERCHANT VESSELS

HOMELAND SECURITY

CARGO SHIPS

COOPERATION

PREVENTION

OCEANS

PROTECTION

CONTROL CENTERS

CRISIS MANAGEMENT

STRATEGY

ECONOMIC IMPACT

*MOTRC(MARITIME OPERATIONAL THREAT RESPONSE CENTER)

MARITIME TERRORIST ATTACKS

*MARITIME SECURITY

MOTR(MARITIME OPERATIONAL THREAT RESPONSE PLAN)

INTERAGENCY COORDINATION

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVES

NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR MARITIME SECURITY