"Canada and the United States can work together to better improve the monitoring of vessels off the west coast of North America as well as share intelligence about those ships, says the new commander of the U.S. Navy�s Pacific Fleet."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=999009&C=landwar Posted 08/01/05 19:41 Sharing the Maritime Security Burden Admiral Calls for Canadian, U.S. Navies To Increase Cooperation in Pacific By DAVID PUGLIESE, VICTORIA, British Columbia Canada and the United States can work together to better improve the monitoring of vessels off the west coast of North America as well as share intelligence about those ships, says the new commander of the U.S. Navy�s Pacific Fleet. Adm. Gary Roughead said he also will advocate increasing the number of exercises with his Canadian counterparts on the west coast, Maritime Forces Pacific, to further interoperability. �One of the areas all of us are very interested in is looking at the best way to really improve and expand our awareness of the maritime domain,� Roughead said after attending the change-of-command ceremony here for the new head of Maritime Forces Pacific, Rear Adm. Roger Girouard. Roughead noted that unlike in aviation, where the takeoff of a plane, the type of aircraft and its route can be monitored, that capability is not as developed for the maritime arena. �It transcends homeland defense, it transcends other types of operations, so I think that�s an area where we can work together and an area where there�s tremendous opportunities, great opportunities to improve our effectiveness,� he said. �If we do it right, we can become very efficient and expend less of our precious resources to develop that capability.� Roughead took over command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on July 8. He said that U.S. and Canadian naval systems are compatible, but as the two services become even more connected through various communications and high-technology systems, there will be ways to further enhance information-sharing. He noted the value of Canadian Navy surveillance efforts, such as the plan to establish a high-frequency surface wave radar on the east and west coasts to monitor ships approaching North America out to 200 nautical miles. But Roughead said information-sharing is just as important. �What are the protocols for that; there are technical dimensions to that and there are policy dimensions,� he said. �By working together, I think we can advance that.� Vice Adm. Bruce MacLean, head of the Canadian Navy, said the government�s new Defence Policy Statement released in April puts more emphasis on operations in home waters and working closer with the United States and other Canadian government departments, such as the Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). More Exercises As part of that new policy, more than 2,000 personnel took part in Trident Fury, an exercise in May involving the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian and U.S. navies and air forces. The exercise was one of the largest of its kind off the Canadian west coast and was designed to demonstrate joint operations between the two countries and the ability to respond to offshore threats. In February, Exercise Sea Barrier had the Canadian Navy and Air Force working with the U.S. Coast Guard to better develop coastal surveillance and intelligence-gathering. MacLean said the Canadian Navy also is in the midst of expanding its existing maritime security operations centers here and in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The centers will be staffed with Navy personnel, RCMP officers, members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as well as Canada Customs and other federal officials. The project will unfold over the next five years, with the centers eventually capable of feeding information to Canadian government departments and U.S. Navy and government authorities. Canadian officials said part of the project will concentrate on advanced data fusion techniques and the development of technology to allow information gathered from various government agencies to be coordinated and displayed in the centers. In the past, Canadian government agencies have not had the technical ability to rapidly share their information. The enhancement of the maritime security centers is expected to cost 157 million Canadian dollars ($114 million). E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hk00slg/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122953380/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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