Determinants of Achieving Effective Shared Situational Awareness within the Context of Global Maritime Partnerships.

摘要

Maritime domain awareness as it is termed in the United States is a key enabler to help maritime forces and other organizations maintain maritime safety and security. Regional bodies such as the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) have expressed their willingness to harmonize competing national interests and to mobilize international assistance to build regional capacity in crucial areas, such as surveillance, patrolling, logistics, and information sharing. According to a United Nations report, this growing determination comes at a time when pirate attacks off Africa's west coast have become more violent, sophisticated, and systematic. The maritime domain is vulnerable to a wide array of threats, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; environmental degradation; smuggling; trafficking in persons; narcotics trafficking; piracy; proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and terrorism. The Maritime Domain Awareness Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is an analytical tool designed to assess existing maritime domain awareness capabilities and gaps. It can be used to provide a snapshot of a country's capacity to achieve different levels of maritime domain awareness. The Maritime Domain Awareness CMM is designed to suggest a strategy that organizations could adopt to improve Maritime Domain capabilities with a set of milestones that represent significantly different levels of capability. These milestones are expressed as maturity levels. The Maritime Domain Awareness CMM was used to rank African countries and then regression analysis was computed to determine how well the variables of trust, globalization (networking), economic wealth, and corruption explained the variability in CMM ranking.