On Jan. 19, 2012, the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) inaugurated its new Maritime Operation Center (MOC).

The new center, located inside the complex of Santa Rosa, near Rome, where the HQ of the Commander in Chief of the Fleet (CINCNAV) is based since 1972, was designed to meet the service’s strategic concept, based on the integrated surveillance of maritime areas of interest and the projection capabilities in the maritime environment.
The new MOC brings under the same roof the Maritime Surveillance Operations Center and the Air-Sea Operation Center.
The Air-Sea Operation Center controls the assigned forces (ships, submarines, aircraft) using a complex command and control system whose core is a Maritime Command and Control Information System.
The Maritime Surveillance Operations Center collects all data required to achieve the Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA) and generate a Recognized Maritime Picture (RMP). The RMP is obtained by fusing the information collected from several “sensors”, as radars, warships, patrol aircraft and drones, as well as other national or allied command and control systems.
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