Maritime Port Security by M Hanif Ismail

Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is a leading designer and manufacturer
of communications, command and control
systems, radar, navigation/surveillance systems
and other software-intensive products that are
necessary for building fully integrated and fully
networked systems.
A prime example of one such networked system,
the US Coast Guard’s Integrated Deepwater
Program, leverages the company’s expertise in
similar systems for the US Department of Defense
customer. Likewise, the company is applying its
multi-sensor technology through its Swimmer
Intruder Detection System, which automatically
detects, classifies and tracks all types of swimmer
intruders.
With Lockheed Martin’s legacy systems, such
as the P-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft
and Tethered Aerostat Surveillance Systems,
the company delivers systems that can monitor
land and sea borders from the high ground. Tethered
Aerostats provide continuous real-time radar
surveillance and defence across the US southern
border for both air and surface threats. Under
contract from the US Missile Defense Agency,
Lockheed Martin is building a prototype of the High
Altitude Airship, a lighter-than-air vehicle that can
be deployed at 60,000 feet.
Lockheed Martin is taking a leading role in applying
the cutting-edge technologies of biometrics
and fingerprint identification to the challenges of
homeland security. Lockheed Martin leveraged
advanced technologies to create the capabilities
for identifying and matching fingerprints in just
hours instead of days or weeks. Lockheed Martin
is involved in programmes that apply fingerprint
technology and optical scanning to other biometric
markers, providing highly secure credentialing and
communications, as well as an unprecedented
degree of interoperability among biometric scanning,
matching and card subsystems.
Raytheon
Project Athena Multi-Domain Awareness System
from Raytheon is a network centric, multi-domain
command, control, communications, computers,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
(C 4 ISR) system for high performance situational
awareness, fusion, analysis and knowledge
management. By exploiting information from
global sources—including sensors, databases
and intelligence—Athena delivers persistent
surveillance, situational awareness and anomaly
detection aids to reduce operator workload.
Athena uses a modern, extendable and open
C 4 ISR framework that works with a wide range
of sensors and collaborates across command
centres and enterprise systems. It employs userfriendly
and role-based methods of managing
correlated information and sharing across local,
regional or global joint command interests. Athena
delivers fast and flexible multi domain awareness
for rapid operational deployments using proven
components.
Athena is based on a proven systems architecture
used by NORAD. This robust system can
process multiple inputs on many thousands of
tracks. With a look and feel common to existing
command and control centres, Athena is also userfriendly.
Athena’s framework is based on a tiered,
service-oriented architecture, uses off-the-shelf
components and conforms to US Department of
Defense architecture framework standards. Athena
adds value by providing rules-based anomaly
analysis and software agent capabilities, along
with network centric service capabilities.
Raytheon operates the Project Athena Multi-
Domain Awareness Testbed at its facility in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Here, Raytheon
provides ongoing demonstrations of Athena’s
multi-domain capabilities, using live feeds and
simulated threat scenarios, real-time display and
analysis, and real-time re-planning for multiple
event assessments.
Scenarios include global domain awareness
across operational commands; surveillance
across domains (land, air, sea); evaluation of
operational concepts and technology; and border
threats and interdiction. Operational deployments
for border surveillance missions have demonstrated
a robust, user-friendly and effective field
C 4 ISR capability.
Representatives from Raytheon Integrated
Defense Systems joined local, state and federal
officials in Providence, on Apr 16, 2009, for a
demonstration of the Port Area Waterside Surveillance
System, or PAWSS. The demonstration
took place at the grand opening of the Providence
Emergency Management Agency’s new
Emergency Operations Centre (EOC). Raytheon
permanently deployed the sensors and its Athena
data fusion and operations centre technology to
provide situational awareness capability. With a
network of sensors from the southern entrance
of Narragansett Bay to the Port of Providence 25
miles north, PAWSS allows decision makers to
MARITIME PORT SECURITY
spot and evaluate threats early. Athena integrates
information from the sensors, including radars and
day vision cameras, to provide input to the Rhode
Island Common Operating Picture (RICOP). This
gives officials advance warning and the improved
situational awareness needed to maintain port
security. The shared future vision of RICOP is to
provide an integrated and enhanced situational
awareness capability that provides statewide public
safety and security across multiple domains.
Athena would serve as the data fusion and decision
support backbone.
Thales
The new
Coast
Watcher
radar range
ensures the
safety and
security from
surveillance
of territorial
waters to site
protection
and early
warning
detection of
surface and
air threats.
Thales
Thales provides end-to-end integrated security
solutions to secure port facilities in compliance
with the International Ship and Port Security
(ISPS) Code adopted by the International Maritime
Organisation (IMO).
Thales has the ability to manage, integrate
and provide long-term support for innovative
solutions to meet security requirements for port
infrastructures: terminals, marinas, loading areas
and administrative buildings.
Thales port security solutions are part of
Thales SHIELD, the brand name of the whole
Thales group security and safety portfolio.
They incorporate the most recent technological
advances in access control integration, digital
video surveillance, perimeter detection, tracking,
supervision and security operations management.
The systems are adapted to coastal environment,
calling for corrosion-proof materials and
optimised installation to minimise the effects of
adverse weather conditions. Thales also delivers
consulting services to cover all aspects of security
risk management, whether IT-related, physical,
environmental or people-oriented.
Customer references in this field include comprehensive
security solutions for the port of Calais,
one of Europe’s biggest seaports and global
supervision of the autonomous port of Nantes
Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic coast.n
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