MANAMA, Bahrain — Kuwait-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 152 commander, CDRE Mohammed Alarefi, and Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) commander, U.S. Navy Capt. Lee Stuart, came together to recognize the growing partnership between the two organizations with the Kuwait Naval Forces, April 15.

“Together, we take a major step forward in enhancing maritime domain awareness and strengthening our collective ability to safeguard the security of the Arabian Gulf,” said CDRE Alarefi. “This partnership reflects our shared values of trust, transparency, and regional unity. Ready Together!”

Since JMIC has become part of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), they have built their capability in support of operations, including the use of SeaVision.

SeaVision is a tool that takes in multiple sources of data and collects them into a real time maritime picture, greatly increasing maritime domain awareness and allowing forces to operate more effectively.

As a result of this partnership, SeaVision has been implemented across the entire fleet of the Kuwait Naval Force, and will be used in future operations to improve maritime domain awareness and capability.  

“This milestone reflects our mutual commitment to enhancing maritime domain awareness and securing the Arabian Gulf,” said CDRE Khaled Alrayyes, Kuwait Naval Force Fleet Commander. “We are proud to lead this effort alongside CTF 152 and remain fully committed to operational integration built on trust, transparency, and regional unity.”

Once this system has been proven on operations it will allow GCC nations to engage with CTF 152 and JMIC, and will increase maritime security in the Arabian Gulf. In the future, this model of implementation will allow these capabilities to be expanded to the whole of CMF and will have a lasting and positive effect on security in the region.

CTF 152 is one of five task forces under Combined Maritime Forces, the world’s largest international naval partnership. CTF 152’s mission is to counter smuggling activities, disrupt activities that support terrorism using the maritime commons and to support legal fishing in the Arabian Gulf.

Combined Maritime Forces is a 46-nation naval partnership upholding the international rules-based order by promoting security and stability across 3.2 million square miles of water encompassing some of the world’s most important shipping lanes.