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| Paper Title: | Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) in India: Legal Frameworks and Strategic Imperatives |
| Authors Name: | Piyush Pandey |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2601007 |
| Published In: | Volume 11 Issue 1, January-2026 |
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| Abstract: | Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) has developed into an important element of India's whole government maritime strategy in the current century. This is particularly salient as India is situated in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and is facing more considerable security challenges (such as growing submarine activity by adversarial states, maritime terrorism, illegal natural resource exploitation) as well. As such, UDA now becomes a defence necessity, but also a multifaceted tool that overlaps successfully with environmental stewardship, economic growth and scientific advancement, particularly in the face of expanding and irreversible climate change impacts in the IOR. The working development of UDA systems in India commensurately fits with efforts to secure national maritime boundaries, increase maritime security via naval domain awareness, and direct India towards the long-term economic potential of the blue economy. The Indian Navy's enthusiastic push towards indigenous solutions, including technologies like autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and coastal sonar nets, indicates a market potential for real time monitoring of the underwater domain. Further, India's cooperation agreements with allies such as the United States and Japan indicates the critical geopolitical relevance of UDA systems to securing sea lines of communication and countering Chinese activity in the Indo- Pacific. Nonetheless, a number of obstacles remain to the effective realization of UDA in India. These include technological limitations in tropical waters, reliance on foreign sonar systems, conflicts of interest between defence and civilian maritime organisations, and insufficient legal and policy structures. A robust UDA regime with the use of sonic/pinged detection of large areas of the sea, coupled with proactive and passive monitoring of the underwater environment clearly requires a collaborative civil-military approach, dedicated research and development in acoustic and marine sciences, and legislation that establishes a balance between national security imperatives and the health of the marine ecosystem. This paper examines the strategic significance of UDA in India, considers the current challenges to its implementation, and offers policy recommendations to enhance India’s underwater situational awareness as part of a future-proof maritime security architecture. |
| Keywords: | Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA), Maritime Security, Indian Ocean Region (IOR), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Sonar Technology. |
| Cite Article: | "Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) in India: Legal Frameworks and Strategic Imperatives", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.a34-a49, January-2026, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2601007.pdf |
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