Customs and Border Protection , through Air and Marine Operations (AMO), is responsible for identifying potential air threats to the United States, i.e. aircraft involved in the aerial transit of contraband into the United States. AMO conducts air surveillance operations by detecting, monitoring, and tracking suspect cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft. Surveillance (observation), combined with intelligence, law enforcement case work and open source information, creates air domain awareness. Air domain awareness facilitates the detection and understanding of anomalies, enabling situational awareness. Situational awareness – the understanding of an event occurring or about to occur, is derived from domain awareness analysis. Situational
