National Strategy for Maritime Security

In December 2004 the President directed the Secretaries of the Department of Defense and Home-land Security to lead the Federal effort to develop a comprehensive National Strategy for Maritime Security, to better integrate and synchronize the existing Department–level strategies and ensure their effective and efficient implementation. The strategy includes eight supporting plans to address the specific threats and challenges of the maritime environment and combined they present a compre-hensive national effort to promote global economic stability and protect legitimate activities while preventing hostile or illegal acts within the maritime domain.

•  The National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness lays the foundation for an effective understanding of anything associated with the Maritime Domain and identify-ing threats as early and as distant from our shores as possible.

•  The Global Maritime Intelligence Integration Plan uses existing capabilities to inte-grate all available intelligence regarding potential threats to U.S. interests in the Maritime Domain.

•  The Maritime Operational Threat Response Plan facilitates coordinated U.S. govern-ment response to threats against the United States and its interests in the Maritime Do-main by establishing roles and responsibilities, which enable the government to respond quickly and decisively.

•  The International Outreach and Coordination Strategy provides a framework to co-ordinate all maritime security initiatives undertaken with foreign governments and interna-tional organizations, and solicits international support for enhanced maritime security.

•  Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Plan recommends procedures and standards for the recovery of the maritime infrastructure following attack or similar disruption.

•  Maritime Transportation System Security Plan responds to the President’s call for rec-ommendations to improve the national and international regulatory framework regarding the maritime domain.

•  Maritime Commerce Security Plan establishes a comprehensive plan to secure the mar-itime supply chain.

•  The Domestic Outreach Plan engages non–Federal input to assist with the develop-ment and implementation of maritime security policies resulting from National Security Presidential Directive 41/HSPD–13.