Leonardo (A5301) is a NATO Coastal Research Vessel owned by NATO and operated by Marina Militare as Coastal Research vessel (CRV), shared by "CMRE - Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation", in La Spezia Italy.
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) is tasked to provide maritime security along the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts of Canada, exercise Canada's sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago, and support Canada's multi-national and bilateral interests overseas.
 The RCN fleet comprises the Pacific Fleet at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt, and the Atlantic Fleet at CFB Halifax.
 CFB Esquimalt is located on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, and is home to 15 vessels and 6,000 staff, the headquarters for Maritime Forces Pacific, Her Majesty's Canadian (HMC) Dockyard Esquimalt, Fleet Maintenance Facility – Cape Breton (FMF-CB), Fire Fighting and Damage Control School, the Naval Officer Training Centre (NOTC Venture), and extensive housing.
 CFB Halifax is home port for the 18 vessels of the Canadian Atlantic Fleet and situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
 CFB Halifax employs 7,000 civilians and military staff, and hosts the Canadian Atlantic Fleet headquarters, HMC Dockyard Halifax, FMF Cape Scott, extensive maritime research facilities, an ammunition depot, and the four maritime squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force that serve aboard the fleet.
 The Canadian Armed Forces are currently constructing a new naval facility at Nanisivik, Baffin Island, to provide a summer port for RCN patrols in the Canadian arctic.
Previously known as NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) is a scientific research and experimentation NATO facility that organizes and conducts scientific research and technology development, centered on the maritime domain, to address defense and security needs of the Alliance.
 It is an executive body of NATO's Science and Technology Organization (STO).
The SACLANT ASW Research Centre was the predecessor to the NATO Undersea Research Centre.
 It was known as The SACLANT ASW Research Centre from 1959 through 1986 and the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre from 1987 through 2003.
 The Centre was commonly referred to as SACLANTCEN.
Alliance (A5345) is a Research Vessel owned by NATO and operated by Marina Militare as NATO Research vessel and shared by "CMRE – Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation", in La Spezia, Italy.
Chinese Maritime Institute also called China Maritime Institute (CMI) was founded on July 11, 1962, and it is a non-profit institute based in the Taipei City, Taiwan.
 CMI's main mission is to promote and to engage in academic research on maritime and aviation research and to co-fund the publication of Maritime Quarterly journal in Taiwan.
 The founding chairman of CMI is the late Professor Kuang Wang.
 The late Professor Kuang Wang was a leading academic researcher and god father on maritime domain in both China and Taiwan.
 CMI together with CMRI (Chinese Maritime Research Institutes) is one of the major maritime research organizations in Taiwan.
 The permanent president of honour for CMI is Prof. Kuan Lin who is also the founder of one of the largest logistics companies, Pacific Star Group, in Taiwan.
 Dr. Kuan Lin together with his wife, Ms. Ivy Wang, donated a six storey building, the Ivy Hall, to the National Taiwan Ocean University in 2011.
 Current chairman of the CMI is Professor Chih-Ching Chang of the National Taiwan Ocean University.
 Professor C.C. Chang was also the deputy president of the National Taiwan Ocean University between May 2011 and July 2012.
 The 17th Board members of CMI will held their posts for three years from May 27, 2011 until May 26, 2014.
Boldrewood Campus is the University of Southampton’s innovation campus, located in Southampton, England.
 The newly built campus is a centre where business, research and education coexist in engineering sciences, maritime engineering and other maritime disciplines.
 The state-of-the-art campus is also home to the University’s strategic partner Lloyd’s Register.
 Also based at the campus are the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, the Transportation Research Group, the Airbus Noise Technology Centre and the Rolls Royce University Technology Centre for Computational Engineering.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; French: "Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord" ; "OTAN "), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
Maritime Southeast Asia is the maritime region of Southeast Asia as opposed to mainland Southeast Asia and comprises what is now Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and Timor Leste.
 Maritime Southeast Asia is sometimes also referred to as "island Southeast Asia" or "insular Southeast Asia".
 The 16th century term East Indies, and the later 19th-century term Malay Archipelago refers to a largely similar area.
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
 The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility.
 The park is sometimes referred to as the San Francisco Maritime Museum, its former 1951 name that changed in 1978 when the collections were acquired by the National Park Service.
 Today's San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park was authorized in 1988; the maritime museum is among the park's many cultural resources.
 The park also incorporates the Aquatic Park Historic District, bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street, and Hyde Street.

Question:  the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation was owned by Nato which is also referred to as what?
Answer: North Atlantic Alliance