7th Annual Maritime Security West

The 7th Annual Maritime Security West is the twenty-seventh maritime security program hosted by Homeland Security Outlook since 2011. Maritime Security West furthers a commitment to address the needs of federal, state and local agencies, law enforcement, and military to counter the challenges of securing coastlines, inland waterways, ports and critical infrastructure.

 WHY LOS ANGELES/LONG BEACH?

• The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach have been the number 1 and 2 container ports by volume in the U.S. for over the last two decades.
• The Los Angeles/Long Beach Area received more than $22 million in Port Security Grant Program Awards in the 2017 and 2018 Fiscal Years second only to the New York/New Jersey Area for maritime/port security operations and programs.
• With the critical importance of the ports and its’ proximity to the U.S. and Mexico border, the LA/LB region has been a hot bed of maritime security and marine law enforcement.

AGENDA

The program will be conducted in three concurrent series of workshops, panels, and speaker sessions. This format will provide all participants the opportunity to learn and collaborate in an educational and interactive setting. New for 2019, a group of sessions that will be conducted will be addressing security sensitive information and will only be opened to qualified security officers. 

A few of the topics and sessions: (topics and sessions will be adjusted and added as we get closer to the program) 

• Facility Security Officer Refresher Course
• Tour of the Marine Exchange of Southern California Vessel Traffic Service
• LA/LB Security Leadership Panel
• Canadian Ports and Maritime Security Resources and Initiatives:  Working with our Canadian partners to secure our maritime borders
• Homeland Security Investigations BEST Program
• Port Resiliency Planning: Emergency Management and Continuity of Operations
• Recent Cyber Security Incidents and Its’ Impact on Port and Maritime Facility Operations
• Maritime Incident Response Resources and Support
• Coast Guard Office of Office of Port & Facility Compliance: Cyber Risk Management
• Gaining Situational Awareness Below the Waterline:  Subsea Technologies for Maritime Security Applications
• Drones Application for Law Enforcement and Public Safety
• Cyber Security Incident Response and Recovery
• New Generation of Unmanned Aerial, Surface and Underwater Threats
• NMIO’s Ports and Maritime Stakeholders Cyber Security Policy Recommendations
• Training the New Generation of Marine Law Enforcement Officers
• Southern California ReCOM Program
• National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office Regional Maritime Domain Awareness Improvement Program Maritime Stakeholders Roundtable
• Risk and Crisis Communications: Dealing with traditional and social media
• Maritime Domain Awareness Tools User Workshop:  Sealink Advanced Analysis System (S2A) User Workshop
• FEMA Grant Update
• Maritime Domain Awareness Tools User Workshop:  ARES Security Corp. AVERT C2 (CommandBridge) Command and Control Platform