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MARITIME<br />
S E C U R I T Y<br />
award which will replace the Elbit sourced<br />
LAOS system <strong>and</strong> will be integrated with<br />
Spain’s Sistema Integrado de Vigilância<br />
Exterior (SIVE). Indra was also selected to<br />
provide Romania’s maritime surveillance<br />
systems cover radar, electro–optic sensors<br />
linking via a bespoke <strong>com</strong>munications network<br />
to the C2 hub based on Constanza.<br />
The Transas Baltic <strong>com</strong>pany in late 2010<br />
has recently signed a contract with<br />
Lithuania to provide a sea surveillance<br />
information system (SSIS) for traffic tracking<br />
<strong>and</strong> logging <strong>and</strong> fisheries surveillance<br />
using sensors along Lithuania coast, which<br />
will use the Transas Navi-Harbor maritime<br />
surveillance <strong>and</strong> information service.<br />
Selex Sistemi Integrati are currently<br />
upgrading Italy’s Dispositivo<br />
Interministeriale di Sorveglianza Marittima<br />
(DISM). In a roughly two year deal to<br />
improve coastal radar coverage, SSI will<br />
supply seven sites with its remotely operated<br />
Radar di Avvistamento per la Scoperta di<br />
Superficie-Costiero IASR (RASSCI). The<br />
RASSCI is an over the horizon radar, building<br />
on the capabilities of the Selex Galileo<br />
Gabbiano T2000C radar.<br />
Countries in the region are benefiting for<br />
outside funding for maritime security. It<br />
was recently announced that the US is<br />
ELTA's EL/M-2107 is a high resolution advanced<br />
miniature radar for security applications<br />
including harbour security © AJB<br />
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donating 16 coastal <strong>and</strong> 11 shipboard radar<br />
systems <strong>and</strong> C2 posts to Indonesia to cover<br />
the Straits of Malacca. The two country plan<br />
to extend the network into the Sulawesi Sea<br />
<strong>and</strong> covering roughly 2500km with the overall<br />
system centre will be on the isl<strong>and</strong> of<br />
Batam. Japan has also provided radar to the<br />
support maritime security in the same project.<br />
The work is funded under US DoD<br />
Section 1206 funding to support the international<br />
counter-terrorism work. Malaysia has<br />
received similar capabilities under the same<br />
programme also using US donated radar. In<br />
2008, FLIR Systems announced an order<br />
from Malaysia for 12 ThermoVision 2000<br />
(THV2000) long-range thermal imaging sensor<br />
systems with a range of up to 20 km for<br />
coastal surveillance.<br />
In July 2008, Vietnam’s Marine Police<br />
ordered Swedish Space Corp’s MSS 6000<br />
maritime surveillance system which will<br />
equip CASA C212-400 aircraft for delivery<br />
in 2011. The aircraft will be equipped with<br />
Side-looking airborne radar, still <strong>and</strong> video<br />
cameras <strong>and</strong> other on board sensors in all<br />
weather <strong>and</strong> day <strong>and</strong> night <strong>and</strong> airborne<br />
AIS automatic identification system for<br />
ships linked back to base, using broadb<strong>and</strong><br />
sat<strong>com</strong>.<br />
In 2008, Indra were awarded work under<br />
Spain’s Sea Horse network system, a secure<br />
sat<strong>com</strong> based system linking Spain,<br />
Portugal, Mauritania, Senegal <strong>and</strong> Cape<br />
Verde, focused on information exchange<br />
between the parties on illegal immigration<br />
<strong>and</strong> drug trafficking.<br />
Raytheon’s HFSWR (High-Frequency<br />
Surface Wave Radar) is designed to detect<br />
<strong>and</strong> track ships <strong>and</strong> low-flying aircraft at<br />
beyond 200 nautical mile <strong>and</strong> has been used<br />
by DoD’s CTDPO (Counterdrug Technology<br />
Development Program Office) to deliver<br />
low-cost, all-weather detection capabilities<br />
using polarized HF (High-Frequency) electromagnetic<br />
signals which propagate along<br />
the sea’s surface rather than stopping at the<br />
horizon.<br />
Controp’s Thermal Imaging solutions<br />
have been used in a number of coastal surveillance<br />
solutions. In late 2010, Controp<br />
were awarded a contract to supply their Fox<br />
720 Thermal cameras as a coastal surveillance<br />
subcontract to local prime contractor<br />
in support of India’s Coast Guard. Complete<br />
systems built around Fox variants have also<br />
been supplied for similar programmes with<br />
DANIS systems covering Sydney harbour<br />
since 2010. In Italy, five of Controp’s