HALO Maritime Defense Systems Creates New Maritime Protection Solution

HALO Maritime Defense Systems has progressed from the design phase of its latest product, the HALO™ Maritime Security Barrier.

HALO Maritime Defense Systems, a producer of maritime security barriers to prevent incursion of small to medium sized boats into critical maritime assets, announces that the company has made a major transition from the design phase of their latest product, the HALO™ Maritime Security Barrier, to the validation phase with first parts off new production molds.

The company, according to CEO Paul Jensen, “is implementing the most innovative and effective solution for protecting key assets that border water such as ports, fuel storage tanks, LNG transfer stations, and naval bases.” 

Unlike competing solutions, the HALO™ Barrier is a stable and passive structure built upon proven experience and patent-pending technology, enabling a secure floating breakwater at significantly less total lifecycle cost.

Maritime Security Barriers

The company believes that, with their maritime security barriers, they are delivering precisely the right solution at the right time.  According to Jensen, HMDS customers need the HALO™ solution to respond to the challenges of today’s terrorist environment wherein:

• Unsophisticated attacks by small boats are the threat, and very difficult to defend against
• Attacks by these boats are on the rise, and are a preferred vector for Terrorists, including multiple, “swarm-type” attacks
• While there are layers of protection on the landside, little exists on the waterside
• Patrol boats are ineffective at stopping speed boats in open water
• Until now, there has been no effective way to protect maritime assets from this threat

The Mumbai Attacks in India reinforced across our military and intelligence communities that a worldwide terrorist threat is still very real. 

Although the attacks occurred in hotels and cafes across Mumbai, the attackers still arrived in small boats by sea – the easiest means of arriving undetected into the city. 

“The need for the HALO™ Maritime Security Barrier in the world today and the global level of interest in our product has never been greater,” says Jensen.