Abstract:
India’s recently released maritime security strategy emphasizes MDA as a critical requirement for maritime security and an essential tool to deter adversaries and maintain a strategic advantage. It is a broad concept, involving awareness of the positions and intentions of all actors (whether friendly, hostile, or neutral) and in all dimensions (on, over, and under the seas). The first phase of the project was to provide seamless coverage of India’s coast, including the installation of a chain of 74 automatic identification system receivers along the coast and 46 coastal radars along the mainland and the islands. The second result of the attack was that in 2014 the Ministry of Defence launched the Information Management and Analysis Centre and the National Command Control Communication and Intelligence Network. This network collates data on all vessels operating near the Indian coast from multiple technical sources, including the automatic identification system and radar chain.
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