Global Maritime Awareness Connect (GMA Connect™)
Secure connectivity and content exchanges across distributed Global Maritime Partners (GMP) is necessary to raise geospatial situational awareness and empower those transiting the global commons.
Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
Collectively, the global maritime community spans a vast and diverse ecosystem, from those operating within shore-based facilities to the countless mariners navigating the world’s oceans, straits, and canals. These vessels move through the global commons, where freedom of navigation, operational trust, and situational awareness are essential to safety, commerce, and national security.
Despite decades of investment, there remains a critical gap: the absence of a secure yet interoperable solution that can be seamlessly leveraged across the U.S. Navy, Allied Navies, Coalition partners, and commercial-maritime participants. In today’s environment, where threats are asymmetric, information is fragmented, and communications are often contested or denied, the ability to share trusted data across this mixed-fleet ecosystem has become mission-critical.
At times, conditions arise where greater visibility into the maritime domain is essential to reducing risk and preventing loss. Whether confronting natural hazards or man-made threats such as piracy, illicit trafficking, mining of Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs), or the deployment of anti-ship missiles near key maritime choke points, enhanced awareness can mean the difference between vulnerability and resilience.
Facilitating shared Maritime Domain Awareness of Primary and Secondary Choke Points is necessary to reduce Global Trade Risks
Through participation in Local, Regional, or Global Maritime Partners, stakeholders gain access to dynamic, data-driven insights that strengthen decision-making and coordination. GMW’s Zero Trust Edge Gateway (ZTEG) technology enables secure, policy-enforced data exchange across defense, allied, and commercial systems, ensuring that mission partners maintain a trusted, resilient operational picture, even in disconnected or degraded communications environments.
By closing the interoperability gap, GMW empowers the global maritime community to achieve what has long been out of reach — a shared, secure, and persistent maritime picture that enhances freedom of navigation, strengthens coalition trust, and safeguards those who operate at sea.
Connections enable scalable Global Maritime Awareness (GMA)
Working with governmental organizations, commercial shipping operators, and partner technology companies across the unmanned systems and edge-computing domains, GMW is constructing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that demonstrates how secure, scalable, and interoperable services can be deployed to distributed environments, including shore-based facilities, maritime vessels, and aircraft operating at sea.
This MVP anchors GMW’s broader effort to close a long-standing operational gap: the absence of a trusted, real-time information exchange framework that can unite the U.S. Navy, Allied Navies, Coalition partners, and commercial-maritime participants under a common security fabric. Leveraging our Zero Trust Edge Gateway (ZTEG) technology, the MVP enables policy-enforced data sharing and situational awareness between defense and non-defense entities, even in disconnected, contested, or bandwidth-constrained environments.
At the heart of this effort is the Global Maritime Awareness Connect (GMA Connect ™) mobile app. Used in conjunction with ZTEG-based Services, GMA Connect provides GMPs a means to deploy a secure data-driven ecosystem, designed to integrate multi-domain sensor inputs, platform telemetry, and mission intelligence into a unified operational view. GMA Connect enhances decision-making by providing Near Real Time interactions between allied naval forces, unmanned platforms, and commercial participants, enabling coordinated responses to emerging threats, navigational hazards, or incidents at sea.
By adopting a modular, standards-based architecture, GMW’s MVP serves as both a proof of capability and a pathway to scale, paving the way for future integration with existing command-and-control systems, maritime traffic networks, and partner-led analytics environments.
This initiative represents the next step in delivering a shared, secure, and persistent maritime picture, one that advances freedom of navigation, strengthens coalition interoperability, and safeguards maritime operations worldwide.
Analysis of Global Trade Risks is ongoing. Here is an example matrix from Chathan House on these Potential Risk
Stay tuned for more news on our ZTEG Services and GMA Connect mobile app demonstrations in the coming months.