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National Defense November 2007 Grace Jean	Defense System Detects Swarming Boats in Coastal Waters Lockheed Martin has developed a system that detects vessels at long distances to allow operators ample time to identify hostile situations and engage targets.
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 August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Mesh of Technologies to Provide Maritime Safety Net While the Department of Homeland Security begins efforts to strengthen the nation's land borders, less publicized work continues on building a so-called virtual wall along U.S. coasts.
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 September 2010 Grace V. Jean	Duty Aboard the Littoral Combat Ship: 'Grueling but Manageable' The Navy will soon decide which version of the Littoral Combat Ship it will buy. Selecting the ship model, however, is only the beginning of what could be a long, arduous adjustment for sailors who will be serving aboard these new vessels.
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 March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Commercial Ferries Paving Way For Joint High Speed Vessel For insight into how a forthcoming joint high speed vessel might be employed by the Marine Corps, one can look at how leathernecks in Third Marine Expeditionary Force are operating the leased High Speed Vessel WestPac Express.
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Aluminum 'Truck' Joint High Speed Vessel: Great Potential, But Questions Remain The Defense Department this decade will build a fleet of new high-speed aluminum ships specifically designed to shuttle hundreds of troops and tons of cargo around a theater of operations. Analysts say the joint high speed vessel would alleviate pressures on an overtaxed fleet.
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean	Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Federal Agencies Tackle Maritime Security, Ports First The U.S. government's plan to increase its awareness of activities on the world's waterways is starting close to home, as many federal agencies turn their attention to ports. Officials from the Navy and DHS said the task of securing the maritime domain is a global problem.
National Defense January 2004 Harold Kennedy	U.S.-Led Coalition Seeks To Block Weapon Shipments The United States and 10 other nations have embarked upon a controversial plan to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction by blocking suspect shipments by air, land or sea.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Fleet Expansion Hinges On Littoral Combat Ship The Navy took its new warship, the littoral combat ship, from concept to reality in record speed. The service, however, may take years to define the vessel's future missions and develop its various weapon systems.
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 September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate	Monitoring Small Vessels Still a Challenge for Coast Guard, Says GAO The Government Accountability Office has found that few resources are being devoted to the small vessel threat.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Efforts to Deploy Sea Bases Could Draw Lessons From Special Warfare As the U.S. military attempts to develop the technology and doctrine that will allow it to launch and sustain missions solely from the sea, special operations forces have been carrying out such operations on a smaller scale for more than two decades, according to a top Navy official.
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna	Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Sets Sail on First Deployment As the littoral combat ship USS Freedom sets out for Singapore this spring, Navy officials are hoping a smooth first deployment will finally prove the ship's worth to critics.
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors.
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force.
National Defense January 2007 Stew Magnuson	Maritime Domain Roadmap Seeks to ID All Vessels A layered sensor network that stretches out to the deep waters of the oceans will be required to track and identify every vessel approaching U.S. shores, according to a draft of the maritime domain awareness technology roadmap.
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel	Navy Brings Smartphones Aboard Carriers The service members will be able to use the phones to navigate their way around a carrier, as well as locate and track anyone on the ship in real time, officials said.
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy	Commandos Help Stop Weapons Smugglers on High Seas Special operators are playing an active, but low-key part in the proliferation security initiative, which the United States launched in 2003 to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
National Defense January 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Fast Cargo Ships Could Halve Trans-Atlantic Trips FastShip Inc., a Philadelphia-based ship design firm, plans to build a high-speed cargo vessel that can cut trans-Atlantic travel time in half. FastShip is a partner with Lockheed Martin in the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program.
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 December 2013 Valerie Insinna	LCS Training Strategy Mixes Education and Video Games Earlier this year, Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions was awarded $300 million worth of contracts to provide video game-style training to sailors for the littoral combat ship crews.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Ships' Cost Could Sink Plans For Floating Military Bases The success of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forward-looking concept of deploying bases at sea relies heavily on the development of a new class of cargo ships.
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy	No Crews Required: Unmanned Vessels Hit the Waves The Navy is experimenting with a new pair of sleek-looking unmanned surface vehicles designed to deploy from on its future Littoral Combat Ship -- a small, fast vessel being designed for coastal warfare.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Communication Options for Sailors at Sea For all the sophisticated systems and weapons to be found aboard naval warships, there is one fundamental area where technology has been trailing: communications over and under the seas.
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.
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons	Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant.
National Defense August 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Big Data Analytics Helping to Secure the Seas While new tracking and mapping technologies have given oceangoing ships unprecedented visibility of the seas, it has also lead to a glut of data that can be unreliable. One system -- Windward's MARINT -- works to sort and verify that information to create safer seas
Popular Mechanics October 31, 2007 Erik Sofge	Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on the High-Speed Seas Piracy has exploded in nearby waters and their booty is high-tech communication gear.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Monica Heger	Technology vs. Pirates Unmanned aircraft may be the best bet to fight Somalian piracy.
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 April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Carrier Overhaul The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the Navy's oldest nuclear aircraft carrier -- just back from the war in Iraq -- is undergoing a $200 million overhaul that will help her last at least another decade. The work is being done at the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Va., shipyard.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.
National Defense December 2015 Edward Lundquist	Fee-for-Service Model Lowers Upfront Costs Instead of buying an expensive system with many more features than needed, it may be possible simply to pay for the service and get only the data required to accomplish the mission.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.
Popular Mechanics June 2008 Dan Koeppel	World's Fastest Superliner Awaits Rebirth--or the Scrap Yard Although she has not sailed under her own power for nearly four decades, the SS United States has survived. Will the ship be restored, or scrapped?
BusinessWeek May 12, 2011 Robert Young Pelton	Somali Pirates' Rich Returns Imagine if you could invest $100,000 to control a $200 million asset for three months and sell it back to the owners for $10 million - tax-free. That's the Somali pirate way.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	Scientists Developing Sub-Tracking Sea Drone The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to McLean, Va.-based Science Applications International Corp. to develop an unmanned vessel that can track these subs for months at a time over thousands of kilometers.
Popular Mechanics November 11, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	4 High-Tech Surprises From the USS New York Invisible Invasions... Stealth Crane... Smart Layout... Decoys...
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna	Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra Erwin	Security Firms Divided Over How to Succeed in the Anti-Piracy Business Over the past several years, successful ship hijackings have begun to take a toll on the world's economy as Somalia-based pirates have expanded their area of influence beyond the East Coast of Africa, analysts said.
Popular Mechanics September 29, 2008 David Axe	4 Fronts for Pirate-Navy Battle as U.S. Descends on Captured Ship The U.S. Navy's response to a pirated small arms cargo vessel may signal a new stage in the cat-and-mouse game of modern-day piracy.
Civil War Times December 2004 Olav Thulesius	USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's USS Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.'