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MARITIME RISK SYMPOSIUM awareness, policy imperatives, maritime cyber, assessing risks during great change, and Arctic collaborations. As in previous years, a Coast Guard Evergreen facilitated session for strategic- concept generation is being help immediately afterward.

The MRS 2024 program aims to increase awareness and better understand the coercive aspects of maritime gray zone operations. The discussions will also look to explore ways to establish unity-of-purpose in order to build unity-of-effort for countering the disruptive actions of malign actors. This year's symposium has been organized within the broad con- text of the current U.S. Tri-Service Maritime Strategy, pub- lished in late 2020, and signed by the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Ma- rine Corps, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard. Given excellent guidelines provided by this cooperative framework,

MRS2024 contributors are examining how all of the nation’s maritime services and other critical partners can continue to support maritime security during an increasingly contested “gray zone” period. This year’s agenda has six major panels:

PANEL 1 – FUTURE OF MULTI-SERVICE MARITIME STRATE-

GY: HOW TO MOVE FORWARD ON URGENT FUTURE NEEDS?

Flag and general of? cers from each maritime service will provide insights for achieving an enduring national strategy amid growing threats to U.S. maritime industry. Can we build on solid concepts in the 2021 Tri-Service Maritime Strategy (TSMS) to get to the next level: considering an all-services fo- cus on mutual cooperation during times of steadily rising mari- time risk, military hazards, and gray-zone international con? ict.

PANEL 2 – MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS AND TRI-SER-

VICE COLLABORATION

Focus: Global maritime security and prosperity is accom- plished through the effective understanding of the maritime domain and by improving our ability to appropriately share maritime information, including intelligence, law enforcement information and all-source data from private sectors. The pan- el will consider pressing issues in this space, including: How can we improve access to maritime information for all those with requisite needs/appropriate permissions among the Global

Maritime Community of Interest (GMCOI)? What are some

Copyright Grispb/AdobeStock key barriers to our ability to create enterprise-level access to data and transition away from current organization-centric data rammed, message traf? c has been blocked, and continuing cyber attacks have all interrupted maritime trade. Panel presentations architecture? What steps can we take today to break down these barriers and enhance collaboration between GMCOI members?

at MRS2024 bring together many government and industry ex- perts sharing their knowledge on how to manage future risk in the maritime global commons, in littoral waters, and the seabed. PANEL 3 – MARINE BOARD: MARITIME POLICY VIS A VIS THE

NATIONAL MARITIME STRATEGY

This year’s MRS is being held 11-13 June 2024, hosted by the

Focus: Since 2014 Congress has tasked the administrations to

Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California as an in-per- son event. There is no cost for registration. A series of keynote develop a national maritime strategy to ensure the nation has suf- addresses and panels led by leading national experts are focused ? cient U.S. ? agged vessels, mariners and shipbuilding capacity on cooperative efforts among the services, maritime domain to meet future military sealift requirements, which is critical to www.marinelink.com 55

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