Encrypted Tracking System (ETS) Integration for Maryland Natural Resource Police (NRP) and the Maritime Tactical Operations Group (MTOG).

摘要

Maryland has significant critical infrastructure and key assets specific to the maritime environment that must be protected. The Port of Baltimore is located along the shores and branches of the Patapsco River. It is one of the largest ports in the United States and one of the busiest ports on the East Coast. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It is approximately 200 miles long from the Susquehanna River in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers 64, 299 square miles in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. More than 150 rivers and streams drain into the bay. It is an extremely important economic and cultural asset for the approximately 15 million people who live in the Chesapeake Bay basin. It is also vital to the economic stability of the United States: terrorist attacks on any of these assets would destabilize the security and economy of the country. Protecting the Chesapeake Bay watershed and its critical infrastructure and key assets requires a coordinated unified response from law enforcement agencies working together to deter, detect, and respond to maritime security events. The Maritime Tactical Operations Group (MTOG) was created in 2005 in an effort to coordinate Maryland s maritime tactical assets to prevent, respond to, mitigate and recover from any potential maritime terrorist event. The MTOG is comprised of federal, state and local agencies working together in a task force style operation, focusing on standardization of training, equipment, and operational procedures to achieve tactical interoperability within the marine environment. For example, training each operator within the task force to know and understand the equipment that other members are using will ensure a seamless transfer of gear, if needed.