Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS)
U.S. DOT Volpe Center developed a low-cost, unclassified, near real-time network that is used to track vessels as they traverse the world’s waterways.
maritime domain awareness
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Obangame: A Longtime Partnership with the U.S. Navy that Makes African Coasts Safer
For 10 days in late March, Volpe engineers provided hands-on software and hardware expertise to African naval personnel from four nations as part of the U.S. Navy’s Obangame Express. Obangame is an at-sea maritime exercise that focuses on techniques that can increase maritime safety and security...
How a Decades-Long Partnership Led to Safer Waterways around the World
U.S. DOT Volpe Center Director Anne Aylward recently contributed an article to Seaway Compass, the newsletter of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. In this newsletter, Aylward discusses the decades-long partnership between the Seaway and Volpe that has made waterways around the...
A Look Back on 2016 with Volpe’s Annual Accomplishments
Each year, Volpe collaborates with the U.S. Department of Transportation, other federal agencies, and the broader transportation community on hundreds of projects that shape how people and goods move throughout the U.S. and abroad. Our Annual Accomplishments report highlights some of Volpe’s...
Our Ocean Conference Showcases Volpe’s Global Vessel Tracking System
The Volpe-developed SeaVision is a web-based vessel tracking and information-sharing tool that was chosen as one of three featured exhibits at Secretary of State John Kerry’s Our Ocean Conference.
Maritime Professionals from Africa and Asia Improve Maritime Domain Awareness Skills
Volpe recently hosted its third annual training workshop aimed at enhancing and sustaining maritime domain awareness around the world. International participants acquired the skills and knowledge to aid countries in combating illicit maritime activity.
African Nations Gain Vessel-Tracking Skills
Volpe hosted nine representatives from Cape Verde, Senegal, and Tanzania this summer to teach them how to install and maintain the Volpe-developed vessel tracking system that can help African nations combat criminal maritime activities
Maritime Tracking Tool Helps African Countries Combat Illegal Fishing
By using a Volpe maritime tool called SeaVision, the U.S. Navy helped Senegalese officials track a suspicious ship’s movement and found that it was a repeat offender of illegal fishing. Senegal received $1.2 million in fines from the ship’s owner.
Aiding a New Frontier in African Transportation
Volpe engineer Roger Wayson presented to five dozen government officials from across Africa at a recent conference. After the presentation, Wayson was surrounded by government officials who wanted more, including transportation knowledge on how to decrease the three months it can take a...
Maritime Situational Awareness Infographic
U.S. DOT Volpe Center has been in the vanguard of developing and deploying state-of-the-art, easy-to-use, cost-effective vessel tracking networks that enhance maritime situational awareness in waterways around the world. Renowned for its major technological advances in communications, traffic...