An Advanced Integrated Total Ship Safety, Security, Surveillance, Survivability (TS5) System Incorporating Incident Management System For Effective Situational Awareness

Ensuring safety and security of Naval ships, at port and at sea, against external threats is of paramount importance. Equally so, increased survivability based on improved recoverability from major incidents is of concern. The above gives rise to continued improvements in the designs of various advanced technologies that collectively cater for Situational Awareness and Battle Damage Control System (BDCS). Furthermore, effective maritime operations require the integration of reliable technologies into a seamless system in order to fully support the operational missions. To best detect and react to potential external threats and onboard incidents, requires the integration of suitable technologies that can cover a wider range of operations, from offshore platform protection, to forced protection at port, to amphibious, sovereignty, law enforcement, fishery protection, search & rescue operations, normal operations, operation in dangerous waters and in combat. This is a complex challenge given that threats at Port, as an example, or threats in littoral waters, are different from the threats at sea. None of the conventional OEM solutions deployed on existing naval ships provides Modular Integrated Situational Awareness System (MISAS) capability that can manage combined onboard & external threats as well as provide for optimal management of unplanned incidents in an efficient way. Conventional approach is based on solutions that are standalone with limited systems integration, some requiring standalone data acquisition hardware and software, computers, consoles and data communication network that have less commonality with other systems deployed onboard a target vessel. This paper provides an optimum solution for a comprehensive MISAS capability for fast identification and tracking of undesired threats and for improved management of unforeseen incidents. It combines leading edge technologies to manage both threats and incidents through an Advanced Incident Management System empowered TS5 system.