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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 November 2007 Breanne Wagner	Government Lacks Clear Plans to ID Small Vessels Used as Terrorist Weapons In order to decrease the risk of an attack, the government is proposing new security plans. Some suggestions have been met with stiff resistance.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	Nation Uses Sensor to Take Aim at Pirates An island country off the east coast of Africa has turned to an L-3 Communications imaging system for help in its fight against pirates.
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 June 2014 Dan Parsons	South China Sea Dispute Shaping Up as Coast Guard Showdown The U.S. Navy risks sparking an international incident by using warships to check China's westward advance.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Coast Guard Searches for Better Ways to Cope With Protestors Swimmers and surfers have become the Coast Guard's latest nuisance. Of particular concern are protestors who disrupt harbor operations by swimming into the path of vessels near ports.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Coast Guard Helicopters Gain Firepower As the agency's missions expand in the nation's war on terrorism, Coast Guard mainstays, such as the HH-60 Jayhawk and HH-65 Dolphin, are being equipped with sniper rifles and machine guns.
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 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 November 2011 Eric Beidel	Coast Guard Cyberdefense Office: Small but Mighty Like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard suffers thousands of attacks on its networks each month.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	Military Weapons Adapted for Port Defense Technologies that for decades have been tested and deployed by the U.S. military are now being tailored for use by the Department of Homeland Security to protect the nation's ports.
National Defense February 2014 Valerie Insinna	Military Challenged by Changing Arctic Landscape Patrolling the cold, icy waters of the Arctic has long been the responsibility of the Coast Guard, but as polar ice melts and ship traffic in the area increases, the Navy may take a larger role in securing the region and take advantage of new equipment.
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.
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 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 May 2004 Harold Kennedy	Defending Ports The U.S. Coast Guard has begun aggressive enforcement of the Maritime Transportation Act in an effort to increase protection of the nation's ports and waterways from terrorist attack.
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 November 2005 Harold Kennedy	Coast Guard Team Protects Nation's Busiest Ports The Marine Safety and Security Team 91110 is a small, specially trained unit assigned to help protect Boston from terrorist attack and is one of 13 such organizations established at major ports along the nation's coastlines.
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.
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 March 2012 Magnuson & Beidel	Coast Guard May Face Capability Gap On the High Seas The Obama administration has proposed cutting $1.3 billion out of the Department of Homeland Security's overall budget. Almost one-third of that -- $382 million -- would come out of the Coast Guard's allocation.
National Defense March 2009 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard to Beef Up Vessel Identification Network The Coast Guard has embarked on an initiative to improve communication between its land bases and vessels at sea.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Coast Guard Reorganizes in Anticipation of Future Threats The Coast Guard is standing up a new disaster response command and is using lessons learned from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina for guidance.
National Defense April 2013 Stew Magnuson	New Coast Guard Cutter Sparks Fierce Competition Among Shipbuilders It is one of the most highly anticipated military shipbuilding programs in the foreseeable future, and it has nothing to do with the Navy.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	No Silver Bullet for Thwarting Terrorists Aboard Small Boats Experts agree they will remain a weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given their low cost, ease of deployment and success record.
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 November 2004 Harold Kennedy	Coast Guard Expands Joint Anti-Terrorism Training The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to break ground this month on a new $33 million facility that will significantly improve its ability to train military personnel in maritime security tactics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006	Canadian Coast Guard Upgrades Shipboard Navigation Systems with Saab Technology Canada's coast guard placed an order with Sweden's Saab Transponder Tech AB for 141 differential global positioning system receivers to provide a more complete shipboard navigation solution with a common user interface.
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 December 2011 Stew Magnuson	Lean Fiscal Times Influences Design Of New Coast Guard Cutter Program With a proposed fleet of 25 ships, and an expected budget of $8 billion, the Coast Guard's Offshore Patrol Cutter is drawing intense interest from both shipbuilders and budget watchers on Capitol Hill.
National Defense June 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	B-52 Used to Monitor Suspicious Ships Approaching the U.S. U.S. Strategic Command has found new homeland security missions for the Cold War era B-52H Stratofortress.
Wired July 24, 2007 Steve Silberman	Lost at Sea To hunt for software legend Jim Gray, the Coast Guard teamed up with some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. They used commercial satellites, high-altitude NASA planes, radar networks, and ocean current simulators.
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 June 2006 Stew Magnuson	Gas Tankers Prompt Tight Security Escorting LNG tankers in and out of America's harbors is serious business. The Coast Guard provides security to Boston Harbor, among others, for ships carrying fuel from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean amid fear of a USS Cole-type terrorist attack.
National Defense August 2008 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Takes Troubled New Cutter on Grand Tour The month of June marked the coming out party for the Coast Guard's shiny new national security cutter -- the Bertholf.
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 November 2009 Wright & Magnuson	Coast Guard Testing Next Generation of Ice Rescue Boats Coast Guard personnel conducting ice rescues on the frozen rivers and lakes near Detroit will have a new specialized airboat to try out this winter.
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean	Coast Guard begins to tackle complex surveillance mission Multiple initiatives have been set in motion to develop better ship monitoring systems, but financial constraints could delay or prevent such efforts.
National Defense May 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Coast Guard Launches Long-Delayed Communications System The Coast Guard's delayed and expensive search-and-rescue communications network has made its debut in Virginia and at an air station in New Jersey.
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.
National Defense February 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Pressure Builds for New Polar Icebreaker Of the Coast Guard's three icebreakers, only two are operational. More pressure is being put on the service to build a new heavy-duty vessel.
Wired January 18, 2008 Geoffrey Gagnon	Foreigners Keep Out! High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders Countries vie to claim control of different regions in the North Pole.
National Defense January 2008 Breanne Wagner	Coast Guard Takes On Airborne Ship Surveillance As part of a sweeping effort to beef-up maritime surveillance on U.S. shores, the Coast Guard for the first time plans to use airborne tracking devices to quickly relay information about approaching vessels to operators on the ground.
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 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 June 2006 Stew Magnuson	Cooperation key to expanding Coast Guard's reach The Defense Department's Northern Command and the Coast Guard are organizing a maritime domain awareness "community of interest."
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling	Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance.
National Defense April 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Will Miss Deadline to Set Up Port Security Hubs The future of pilot port security hubs remains uncertain as security officials wait for answers from the Department of Homeland Security.