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FUTURE NAVY
• Alliances/ Coalitions – The necessary weight of the forces can
only be obtained by working in combination with other states.
• Interoperability - This is the corollary to collective action, in
that Navies must be able to cooperate both jointly with their
other national services and in combination with their allies.

Network Enable Capability

The overall strategy of the maritime surveillance is to detect, identify
and classify all the players in maritime domain within Sri Lankan water.
Integrating land and sea assets will enhance the overall MDA thus to
monitor all the activities at sea. It is required to develop a common
operating picture from the data extracted from the Network Centric
Sensors deployed around the island with a sophisticated software
application and fusion for anomaly detection.

The roots of maritime domain are expanded to multi domain where
cyber space has also come into the equation of the security architecture
and become critically important. Developing of intelligence through the
collection of data from various sources and fusing is very much essential
in order to fight the unlawful maritime activities. It needs to have a good
knowledge of their kind, of their volume and consequences, of their
location, of the criminals’ habits and modes of action, in order to:

• Identify the national priorities.
• Evaluate the needs of capacities to counter the threats.
• Define the relevant procedures for implementation.
• Plan surveillance and readiness of action capacities.
• Detect the case of interest and intervene when
necessary.

The trust and confidence established through good maritime order will
also compliment to regulate exclusive commercial interests like port
operations, industrial development, ship building, fishing, tourism and
leisure related industries. Significant maritime traffic generates a very
sensitive risk of pollution which could be disastrous for natural resources,
thus affect the marine environment and also for the tourism. Therefore,
it is important to monitor all the seafarers who are mishandling or non-

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