Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)
- As part of overall efforts for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) on the high seas, the Quad grouping, at the Tokyo summit 2022 announced an ambitious Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) initiative to track “dark shipping” and build a “faster, wider, and more accurate maritime picture of near-real-time activities in partners’ waters” integrating three critical regions in the Indo-Pacific – the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and Indian Ocean Region (IOR).