Fisheries and resource protection
Awareness that helps agencies identify activity associated with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and manage marine resources.
Capability
What we do
Overwatch provides the platforms and ISR networks that help partner nations see and understand their maritime domain. Below is how that awareness supports partners across their maritime responsibilities.
Maritime domain awareness, in plain terms.
Maritime domain awareness (MDA) is a clear, current understanding of what is happening across a nation’s waters — the vessels, the activity, and the patterns that matter.
Overwatch provides the building blocks of that awareness: the platforms partners operate, the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) networks that tie them together, and the maritime data that turns observation into understanding.
We describe our capability by what it helps partners do. We do not promise outcomes, and we do not act in our partners’ place.
Four ways we support partners.
Capabilities
Platforms
The systems and platforms that customers own and operate.
ISR networks
Help to stand up networks for persistent maritime awareness.
Environmental monitoring
Maritime data that can support environmental and climate-change observation, alongside partners’ own programs.
Maritime security
Awareness that helps agencies identify activity associated with illegal fishing and trafficking at sea.
Where maritime awareness helps
Maritime awareness supports partner nations across a range of civil and security responsibilities. In each, Overwatch provides the awareness layer. Partners act on it.
Border and maritime security
A clearer picture of a nation's waters that supports lawful border, customs and maritime security work.
Search and rescue
Persistent maritime awareness that can support search and rescue coordination at sea.
Counter-narcotics and dark-vessel awareness
Awareness that supports the identification of vessels operating without transponders, and activity associated with narcotics trafficking.
Environmental and reef monitoring
Maritime data that can support environmental, reef and climate monitoring alongside partners' own programs.
Exclusive economic zone and critical-infrastructure awareness
A persistent view of an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and offshore infrastructure that helps partners understand their maritime domain.
The maritime domain we help partners watch
Overwatch supports awareness across large ocean areas. Select a region to see how the capability is framed. Coverage shown is illustrative, not operational data.
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Choose a region from the list to see how Overwatch frames its awareness there.
Illustrative coverage framing — not operational or market data
Descriptions on these pages set out the capability Overwatch provides and what it can help partners do. They are not guarantees of performance or coverage.
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