Maritime Interdiction Leaders Join to Improve Capabilities
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS061206-13
Release Date: 12/6/2006 4:18:00 PM
By Dan Broadstreet, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Public Affairs
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (NNS) -- Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWC PC)hosted organizational leaders at a conference Nov. 28-29 to organize the development of Expanded Maritime Interdiction Operations (EMIO)-related communications capabilities.
EMIO refers to national and international partnerships of military and maritime law-enforcement entities which detain, divert, disrupt, or destroy vessels used to conduct illegal or hostile activities.
“This was a good forum for gathering several organizations to coordinate and develop EMIO technologies,” said Cmdr. John Funn, assistant program manager for Expeditionary Systems, a division within Program Executive Office, Littoral Mine Warfare Afloat-Antiterrorism Program Office.
According to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Customer Advocate Harry Guthmuller, the conference focused discussions on EMIO-related capabilities.
“It’s all about interoperable communications across the full spectrum to counter the global war on terrorism,” said Operation Systems and Security Planner Robert Berry, a specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard Department of Homeland Security. “We’re making sure while each organization is designing equipment, that when it’s all developed and fielded, our forces will have standardized systems enabling them to communicate.”
Chief of DTRA’s Technology Innovation Office Matthew Holm explained that the conference was highly beneficial due to the availability of a wide representation of experience.
“When we share our expertise among partners, then barriers are broken down and unique systems are replaced with common systems – that’s a more economical way to do business,” Holm said.
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