Information Management and Analysis Centre

The Indian Navy's Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) was approved in 2012 and operationalized in 2014. Located at the Gurugram Air Force Station it is the nodal centre that links information from the high seas and Indian's coastline and island territories. The Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean region (IFC–IOR), was set up in the IMAC in 2018, as a regional information coordination body, that coordinates with 21 partner countries and 22 multi-national agencies. The need to set up such a surveillance and information management system was felt following the 2008 Mumbai attacks. IMAC tracks only non-military shipping, whereas the Directorate of Naval Operations tracks military vessels on another classified network. A multi-agency center named as National Maritime Domain Awareness centre (NDMA centre) is also being considered.
Challenges.
In 2020, reports emerged that even 12 years after the Mumbai attacks, around 60 percent (about 150,000) of small fishing boats lack an identification system.