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National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	For Coast Guard, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Remain A Distant Goal The Coast Guard, the service responsible for protecting the homeland from sea-based terrorist attacks as well as conducting search-and-rescue missions, as of yet does not have a dedicated UAV that it can fly off its ships.
National Defense February 2015 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Tests Navy's Fire Scout Aboard National Security Cutter The Coast Guard's long quest to acquire a ship-based unmanned aerial vehicle is well into its second decade.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Reconsiders Unmanned Aircraft Choice The Coast Guard has halted development of the Eagle Eye vertical unmanned aerial vehicle and is considering other hovering drones for its Integrated Deepwater Systems program, according to agency and industry sources.
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Hasn't Given Up on Long Delayed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Plans The case for having long-endurance, over-the-horizon surveillance capabilities was made in the early years of the Deepwater modernization program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John McHale	Coast Guard awards contract for production of Maritime Security Cutter The new Cutter is part of the Integrated Deepwater System program to modernize and replace the Coast Guard's aging ships and aircraft, and improve command, control, and logistics systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John McHale	Electronic Technology is Central to New Coast Guard Maritime Security Cutter Northrop Grumman Ship Systems is leading the production effort, as a major partner in ICGS -- a joint venture of Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. The lead ship of the class will be finished in 2007.
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Closer to Acquiring Ship-Based Drones The service over the years became the only one that wasn't taking advantage of the unmanned aerial vehicles revolution, and all the benefits they had to offer.
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	Commandant Discusses Coast Guard's Efforts to Modernize The Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition program aims to overhaul the Coast Guard's fleet by 2027, but the project is more expensive than anticipated and may take longer to complete.
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Troubled Coast Guard Cutter Threatens Deepwater The Coast Guard is considering purchasing commercial vessels to serve as stopgaps after the development of its fast response cutter stalled this year.
National Defense May 2004 Frank Colucci	Coast Guard Sets Path for Aviation Upgrades The U.S. Coast Guard is moving briskly on its multifaceted Deepwater aviation upgrade program.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Coast Guard Submits Revised Wish List, Fears Funding Cuts The Coast Guard has sent to Congress a revised requirements document for new equipment that seeks to take into account the U.S. government's heightened need for intelligence and information.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Assumes Oversight of Deepwater Program When the Coast Guard's new National Security Cutter, the Bertholf, stopped four boats carrying bales of cocaine 80 miles off the coast of Guatemala in July, it was welcome news for the service's "troubled" Deepwater modernization program.
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard May Face Rough Seas as it Takes Control of Deepwater A Justice Department investigation, a scathing 60 Minutes report, unsympathetic lawmakers and a stack of negative inspector general reports have marked the Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater Systems program the last two years.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service.
National Defense February 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Mulls Maritime Predator as Northern Version Takes Flight The first Customs and Border Protection Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle arrived in December at Grand Forks, N.D., where it will conduct regular patrols of the northern border.
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy	Surveillance Needs Fuel Demand for Unmanned Vehicles Currently, there are nearly 1,000 robotic vehicles being used for surveillance and reconnaissance, especially in maritime areas in the Central Command theater of operations, and combatant commanders keep asking for more.
National Defense August 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Coast Guard Acquisitions Called 'Unaffordable' The Coast Guard has laid out an ambitious modernization and recapitalization plan for its future fleet of cutters and aircraft, but experts and government watchdogs have thrown cold water on it.
National Defense May 2006 Michael Peck	`Dysfunctional' Interagency Coordination Hampers Domestic Deployment of Drones The Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security have ideas to use unmanned aircraft, but the Federal Aviation Administration is leery about adding robots to the already populated national airspace.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Border Agencies to Fly Maritime Unpiloted Aircraft in Caribbean Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard will begin flying a maritime version of the MQ-9 Predator B Guardian unmanned aircraft vehicle out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in January.
National Defense January 2011 Eric Beidel	Commandant: Coast Guard Suffering Under Strain of Tight Budgets Put simply, the service has a lot of old ships and boats and nowhere near the money required to replace them.
National Defense January 2008 Breanne Wagner	Coast Guard Procurement Programs Struggling, But Staying Afloat Coast Guard officials are optimistic that a new agency in charge of acquisitions can help salvage the service's modernization plans and restore confidence in its ability to manage complex projects.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Rich Smith	U.S. Navy Gets a New $2.6 Billion Toy The U.S. Navy has fallen so in love with the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter drone that it ordered 168 of them, and offered to pay $2.6 billion.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Coast Guard's Unmanned Aircraft Set for Testing Prototypes of the Coast Guard's unmanned tilt-rotor aircraft are to be flown in February, according to officials, who add that a number of operational questions remain outstanding.
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy	Coast Guard Strives to Move Ahead on Modernization In nearly three years after the U.S. Coast Guard launched the ambitious Deepwater program---aimed at modernizing its aging ships and aircraft---the service is struggling to pick up the pace of the enormous project.
National Defense June 2014 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Embarks on Its Costliest Ship Buying Program The Coast Guard has one piece remaining in its long effort to modernize its aircraft and ships: the offshore patrol cutter.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	New Patrol Boats: A Must-Win for The Coast Guard The upcoming acquisition of new high-speed patrol boats for the U.S. Coast Guard is viewed as a make-or-break effort that could help the service recover from a string of setbacks in its Deepwater modernization program.
Popular Mechanics October 8, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Unmanned Helicopter Hunts Drug Smugglers MQ-8B became the first unmanned helicopter to conduct actual operations on a navy ship.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	Coast Guard Boosting Cooperation with Military Last summer, as Russian forces lay siege to the nation of Georgia, the Coast Guard cutter Dallas, along with two Navy ships, sailed to the Black Sea to provide relief.
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin	Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	For the First Time, Navy Will Launch Weapons From Surveillance Drones The Navy will request funds in fiscal year 2010 to begin outfitting its new surveillance drone with kinetic weapons.
National Defense January 2012 Scott C. Truver	Coast Guard Stakes Its Future on National Security Cutters The focal point of U.S. Coast Guard acquisition reform and recapitalization remains the National Security Cutter.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.
National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson	Inspector General Sounds Alarm on Coast Guard's Risky Fast Response Cutter Program Faced with mounting pressures to replace its rapidly aging 110-foot ships, the Coast Guard embarked on an accelerated program to build a new fleet of Fast Response Cutters.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Rich Smith	Northrop Gains Air Superiority Northrop Grumman signs an important contract with the U.S. Navy to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Keep an eye on Northrop, investors; they may be pulling ahead of competition as the nation's foremost military aircraft maker.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.
National Defense December 2014 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Information Technology, Sensor Needs Go Unfilled The Coast Guard is operating ships with obsolete command, control, computer and communications systems, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general said.
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson	New Radars Placed Aboard Unmanned Aircraft on U.S. Borders U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been flying unmanned aerial vehicles on the U.S. border for six years now and the aircraft are in more demand than ever, said the chief of the agencies' aviation office.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Department of Homeland Security Plans to Fly More Predators Such a surveillance system could patrol large public events, such as the Super Bowl or the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver.
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons	Retiring Commandant Calls Oceangoing Coast Guard Fleet 'Woefully Inadequate' Adm. Robert Papp, with only months left in his tenure as commandant of the Coast Guard, said his successor must push to update the service's oceangoing cutter fleet.
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Commandant Girds Service For Possible Budget Cuts The service has already lived through an era of declining budgets. In the 1990s, the Coast Guard lost some 6,000 personnel as its top line funding took hits year after year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Rich Smith	Budget Deficit? What Budget Deficit? The Pentagon has plenty of money for new toys.
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman	The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons	Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Unmanned Air Vehicles Proliferate in the Battlefield The U.S. Army is committing increasing resources to developing sharply enhanced surveillance, communications and weapons for unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense February 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Congress Boosts Coast Guard Budget The Coast Guard has often been characterized as perennially underfunded, but thanks to Congress, the service received a major boost to its acquisition accounts for fiscal year 2016.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John McHale	UAV Market Shows Strong Growth Through Next Decade The market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appears to be growing steadily over the next ten years because of the successful deployment of these pilotless aircraft in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, market analysts say.