OPERAMAR - An Interoperable Approach to European Union Maritime Security Management
Overview
Background & policy context:
The OPERAMAR Support Action dealt with assessing the increasing information exchange. That requires interoperability of maritime security management systems. Technical constraints (legacy systems) are important, but also organisational and institutional obstacles, legislation and regulations.
Objectives:
The objective of OPERAMAR Support Action were meant to provide the foundations for pan-European Maritime Security Awareness, as prescribed by the Maritime Policy, by addressing the insufficient interoperability of European and national assets and generating unified data models for seamless exchange, addressing the hurdles raised by the existing different behavioural, organisational, and cultural issues.
It is currently recognised, that effective management of Maritime Security activities by the EU requires the capability to collect and fuse available data into a common and comprehensive picture to be shared as appropriate among the organisations of participating Member States.
Methodology:
OPERAMAR, networking the competence of national users belonging to EU Member States and Associated countries, European agencies and industrial partners all actively involved in the Maritime domain, sough to:
- Grasp a better knowledge of Maritime Security users needs and their organisations and define interoperability models and analyse the associated issues, taking into consideration the challenging characteristics of the organisational environment in which they will be implemented,
- develop common interoperability requirements and translate them into technical requirements, and
- study the consequences and recommend a relevant strategic research roadmap.
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