CONNECTING THE DEFENCE COMMUNITY WITH INSIGHT, INTELLIGENCE & OPPORTUNITIES

Officially Supported By: Defence Contracts International Supply2Defence

Official Media Partners for:

Indo-Pacific Navy forces from 10 countries have teamed up with the US Navy for the 18th SEACAT exercise in Southeast Asia.

The US Navy and 10 Indo-Pacific Navy organisations from 10 countries met in Singapore to launch the 18th South East Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) exercise. The Training aims to improve coordination and communication and tackle issues such as smuggling and piracy.

The exercise provides realistic training scenarios and participants will train in identifying, tracking, and boarding ships. Participating nations include the United States of America, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Brunei, Bangladesh, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Commander David Negron-Alicea from the Defence Threat Reduction Agency said: “I challenge everyone to get to know your fellow Navy and Coast Guard participants — to observe with an open mind, share lessons that you’ve learned and best practices for the future.”

“By the end of the workshop, I look forward to seeing teams comprised of operators from each of the different partner nations here today working together and achieving success.”

In all, SEACAT includes 14 ships and more than 400 personnel, U.S. Navy units include the staff of Destroyer Squadron 7; P-8 Poseidon aircraft assigned to Task Force 72 and personnel from Task Force 73. Participants from the U.S. Coast Guard include Maritime Security Response Team West (MSRT) and Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team (PACTACLET).

The U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) will conduct workshops and seminars during the visit on strategies for boarding, searching, and seizure techniques in Manila, Philippines, addressing a wide range of topics to include human trafficking, drugs and weapons smuggling, and illegal fishing. An operations centre in Singapore will act as the headquarters of the exercise, tracking vessels and sharing information across participants.

If you would like to join our community and read more articles like this then please click here.

Indo-Asia-Pacific region piracy SEACAT Southeast Asia tracking Training US Navy

Post written by: Ciara Houghton


LATEST STAKEHOLDER

Become a Stakeholder today and benefit from an exclusive marketing package which will allow you to:

  • Engage with active defence buyers and key supply chain partners
  • Create your own branded micro-site which within Defence Online which is managed by you
  • Have a dedicated Digital Account Manager to help enhance your Stakeholder page
  • Promote your news, products, press releases, eBooks and Videos as a Defence Online partner which feeds through to our homepage and social media channels
  • Have your company promoted on our partner website Defence Contracts Online (DCO)
  • All news promoted in mynewsdesk, a major hub for all of our news articles which enables news to be picked up from trade magazines, national newspapers and many other publications which offers extra exposure at no additional cost!

Contact us today or call us on 0845 557 1315 to take advantage of this exclusive marketing package


.

RELATED ARTICLES

The £16M investment will fund Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) led from the universities of Southampton and Edinburgh, forging closer links between defence and academia.

March 21, 2024

Homeland - MoD funds new centres for Doctoral Training

Two new centres for doctoral training are to be funded by the MoD which will enable novel research and provide

BAE Systems to continue US Navy Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems support

January 8, 2024

Maritime - BAE Systems to continue US Navy Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems support

BAE Systems has received a follow-on contract to continue supporting Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems Operations Onboard Navy Ship