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<p>At present, the Navy is unable to provide a robust, routable network that provides real-time actionable  intelligence between boarding operations and intelligence analysts. Actionable intelligence is the means of  obtaining concrete knowledge that permits an individual to take action based on known information. The  lack of a robust routable network creates a lag in operational responsiveness to potential threats identified  within the Maritime Environment. In response to current shortfalls, improved Extended Maritime  Interdiction Operations (EMIO) seeks to support the Secretary of the Navy's vision to streamline and  improve operations and exploitation of boarding data. However, there has been no clear indication as to  how the implementation of these technologies will affect command and control or current operations. This  thesis examines the impact of improved EMIO technology designed to bridge together data with  intelligence collected during EMIO and improve maritime domain decision making in terms of speed and  quality and thus improve end user's situational awareness. We follow the construct of Business Process  Reengineering (BPR) to frame our analysis and to provide focus in our data collection. We also examine  the changes to the present EMIO process by developing and implementing an organizational simulation  using POWER 2.0. Our results indicate that when improved Spiral-1 EMIO technologies, which  significantly decrease the amount of time it takes to fuse collected boarding data into intelligence systems,  are combined with a redesign of the EMIO organization, a qualitative improvement toward accomplishing  the overall process can be achieved. The current process requires 35 hours. Yet, with the revised  technological and proposed organizational changes, the same process can be achieved in 5 hours, thus  achieving the Navy Secretary's vision to streamline and improve maritime operations.
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<br>Subjects: Metadata; Ships; Automatic identification systems; United States; Maritime terrorism; Prevention; Shipping; Security measures; Unified operations (Military science); Command and control systems</div>
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Carroll, Christopher J.</div>
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