Small Vessel Security Threats Forum Puget Sound
“Leveraging technology to secure our maritime domain from small vessel security threats”
Kitsap Conference Center, Bremerton, WA, July 18th and July 19th, 2012
Early Bird Registration Rates End Tonight at Mid-Night!
The Small Vessel Security Threats (SVST) Forum Puget Sound will be the fourth installation of the SVST Conference that has been held in Miami Beach, San Francisco and Charleston over the last year. The SVST Forum was created to bring together stakeholders from all sectors of maritime security to discuss and put in motion the implementation plan for the Small Vessel Security Strategy (SVSS) released by DHS last spring.
The success of the program has been the diversity of the audience which includes state & local police, DHS, DOJ, DOT, DOD and private industry. This diversity has allows for the input and perspective from a wide range of maritime stakeholders giving our participants in depth knowledge of not only the policy side, but also the operational side of the SVSS.
The first two programs in Miami and San Francisco highlighted all four goals of the SVSS familiarizing the participants with the SVSS and opening the discussion to all stakeholders about the implementation. The recent Charleston program focused on the first goal of the SVSS by highlighting partnership and information sharing to enhance maritime domain awareness.
Continuing with our plan to focus on each individual SVSS goal in each program, the upcoming SVST Forum Puget Sound will focus on Goal 3 of the SVSS by discussing the technology needs and use in implementing the SVSS to secure our maritime domain from small vessel security threats.
Here are some of the topics that will be discussed at the forum:
- The SVSS current progress and its’ emphasis on technology and innovations
- Social Media’s impact on the implementation of America’s Waterway Watch and Citizen Action Network programs
- How DNDO support the state and local in radiological and nuclear detection and how state and locals are implementing their own rad/nuc detection programs through partnership and collaboration with national laboratories such as Sandia and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
- Customs and Border Protection’s air and marine interdiction capabilities
- Partnership and collaboration with Canada in securing our maritime border
- High and low tech (barriers) solutions to protect maritime critical infrastructure
- Leveraging the Focused Lens Program to build awareness, calculate risk and identify threats in boat launch sites
- JHOC and its’ use of advance technologies in identifying and interdicting small vessel security threats and the sharing of information between federal, state, local and international partners
- DHS Science and Technology Directorate current research and new innovations in small vessel detection
- Integrating law enforcement and DOD technological capabilities to secure the maritime domain
- Surveillance technologies use in a complicated and vast maritime AOR
- Funding and grants available for new technologies
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