Maritime domain protection in the Straits of Malacca

Author
Buschmann, Jeff
Crider, Tracey
Guillermo Ferraris, Guillermo
Garcia, Enrique
Gungor, Hasan
Hoffmann, Shannon
Kelley, Micah
Cory MacCumbee
Malloch, Robert
McCarthy, Chris
McIlvaine, Jacob
Rummler, David
Sari, Serdar
Tiong Ngee Teo
Walton, David Jr.
Westmoreland, William
Wiens, Matt
Wise, Alexis
Woelfel, Greg
Wyllie, Russ
Ang, Han Hiong
Meng Chang, Kok
Chua, Chay
Cfir, Dolev
Er, Kim Hua
How, Yew Seng
Hsu, Yu Chih
Khoo, Wee Tuan
Koh, Swee Jin
Kratzer, Rick
Liang, Lawrence
Lim, Joel
Lim, Tat Lee
Lorio, Jennifer
Lukacs, John
Ng, Chee Mun
Ong, Winston
Quek, Chin Khoon
Raghavan, Dinesh
Tan, Mark
Tan, Nai Kwan
Teo, Amos
Teo, Hong-Siang
Tong, Matthew
Yeoh, Keat Hoe
Yon, Yoke Chuang
Date
2005-06Metadata
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Hostile acts of maritime piracy and terrorism have increased worldwide in recent years, and the global impacts of a successful attack on commercial shipping in the Straits of Malacca make it one of the most tempting target locations for maritime terrorism. In an attempt to develop a system of systems to defeat and prevent terrorism in the Straits of Malacca, this study developed three significant commercial shipping attack scenarios (Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) shipment, Ship As a Weapon (SAW), and Small Boat Attack (SBA)), and used a Systems Engineering Design Process (SEDP) to design alternative architectures that offered promising ways to defeat these attacks. Maritime Domain Protection (MDP) architecture alternatives combined five separate systems: a Land Inspection System, a Sensor System, a Command and Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) System, a Response Force System, and a Sea Inspection System. Individual models for each system were developed and combined into overarching integrated architecture models to evaluate overall performance. The study results showed that solutions tended to be threat-specific, and current capabilities were mixed. While solutions were found to effectively reduce risk in all threat scenarios, these sometimes came at great expense. Alternatively, cost-effective solutions were also found for each scenario, but these sometimes gave limited performance.
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NPS Report Number
NPS-97-05-001Related items
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