News- The United States has approved a military hardware and logistics support package for India to bolster the Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) initiative. Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA).
About Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)
| Specifications | Details |
| Launched by | Quad grouping (India, Australia, Japan and U.S) at the Tokyo summit in 2022 |
| Aim | To enhance maritime security and shared domain awareness in the region via technology and training support. |
| Objectives | 1.To establish a comprehensive system for monitoring and securing maritime activities in the Indo-Pacific 2.To ensure the safety of critical sea lines of communication 3.Promote cooperation among like-minded nations in the region |
| Significance | The initiative will help the Indo-Pacific partners to rapidly detect and respond to a wide range of challenges such as dark shipping, humanitarian crisis among others. Note: Dark ships are vessels that switch off their Automatic Identification System (AIS)—a transponder system—to avoid detection. |
