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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.
National Defense September 2014 Christina Munnell	Congress, Federal Agencies Decline to Help Coast Guard Fund New Polar Icebreaker The Coast Guard needs $1 billion to build a new polar icebreaker. Members of Congress at a recent hearing said the service wasn't going to get it. At least not from them.
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.
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 March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Coast Guard Trying to Stay the Course on its Shipbuilding Plans During Tough Fiscal Times The Coast Guard is in the middle of a 25-year effort to replace its fleets of aging ships, and has so far managed to obtain most of the funding it needs, said Adm. Robert J. Papp, commandant of the Coast Guard.
National Defense March 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Coast Guard Refocusing Missions Toward Western Hemisphere, Arctic The Coast Guard faces a future of expanded missions around the globe that will force it to reposition much of its fleet to the Western Hemisphere and Arctic region.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
Popular Mechanics March 12, 2007 Erin McCarthy	Ice Queens 5 high-powered icebreaker ships that rock the arctic, antarctic and an ice sheet near you
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	Coast Guard Examines Future of Patrolling The Arctic The Coast Guard anticipates increased duties patrolling the Arctic region due to global warming.
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 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 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 April 2012 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Considering Permanent Bases in Arctic The Coast Guard will for the first time dispatch one of its new National Security Cutters to the Arctic as the ice breaks up on Alaska's North Slope this summer.
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 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Government Action Needed to Fix Troubled Shipbuilding Sector The limited commercial market, combined with a decline in Navy orders, has resulted in excess production capacity, underused larger shipyards and high vessel costs.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Rescuing the Coast Guard: Chronically Low Budget Hurting Service's Ability to Perform Missions, Experts Say Everyone loves the Coast Guard, but that affection hasn't translated into a budget that can sustain its ships, aircraft and personnel, said some of the service's former leaders.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 June 2011 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years.
National Defense April 2013 Stew Magnuson	When It Comes to the Navy's Destroyers, It's a Numbers Game Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world's oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Facing Uncertainty, Navy Contemplates `Alternative Futures' Navy officials worry that fleet expansion efforts could be wrecked if the Defense Department cuts naval budgets to pay for the addition of thousands of troops to the Army and Marine Corps over the next four years.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
National Defense January 2011 Eric Beidel	Coast Guard Turns Navy Cast-Offs Into New Aircraft The Coast Guard is using Navy scraps to replace helicopters it has lost in crashes during 2010.
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.
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff	Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009	U.S. Coast Guard Adopts Thales HF-ALE Radios for Surface Ships Thales high-frequency automated link establishment (HF-ALE) radios will be installed in Coast Guard cutter surface ships over the next five to seven years.
National Defense December 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Coast Guard, NOAA Testing Drones in Arctic The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the Coast Guard are teaming up in the Arctic to test new unmanned aerial system applications.
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al.	Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.
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."
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Josh Harkinson	Deadly Coast Guard Dive: What Went Wrong A routine training exercise on a day off from a polar icebreaker ended in tragedy. Coast Guard officials believe the most important lesson to be gleaned from the accident in Alaska is to follow the rules.