Team 14: Anti-piracy and terror reduction: simulating pirate behavior to exploit environmental information
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Authors
Esher, Leslie
Hall, Stacey
Hansen, Jim
Regnier, Eva
Sanchez, Paul
Singham, Dashi
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2010-03
Date
March 2010
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
Due to the increase in pirate activity off the coast of
Somalia, the United States military and the combined forces
of the world’s navies are partnering together to defeat these
violent extremists. Piracy has threatened maritime safety and
cost commercial shipping billions of dollars paid in ransom
monies. The Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa that were
once safe to transit are no longer, and for this reason,
President Obama has issued an executive order to defeat
terrorism in the form of piracy. The Commander of the U.S.
Naval Forces Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. Fifth
Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), is responsible for
the safety, stability, peace, and vital interests of the United
States for 2.5 million square miles of water. For the contents
of this paper, the region of geographical concentration has
been on the area that has been the most prevalent to pirate
attacks, Somalia. Combined Task Force 151 (CTF 151) is a
multi-national task force that is response for 1.1 million
square miles of water in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of
Somalia.
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from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 8 Workshop 20
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Operations Research (OR)
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