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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 May 2004 Harold Kennedy	Patrols Keeping Watchful Eye on Potomac The Coast Guard began patrols along the Potomac in the wake of 9/11. The goal was to improve waterborne protection for the nation's capital, said Lt. Frank Del Rosso, the station's commander.
Boating August 2005	Project Boat Blog A year's worth of inside information on the publication's summer project boats: The Robalo R260... The SeaStrike 240 CC.
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 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 April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Dangerous Water Crossings Expected to Rise While land-border crossings grab most of the media attention, almost forgotten by the public is the ocean route. But illegal immigrants chancing a water crossing can face deadly consequences.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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 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 January 2010 Austin Wright	Coast Guard Demonstrates New Sensor Technologies Coast Guard researchers have entered the final stages of a $5 million sonar project that shoots 16,000 sonar beams and instantly assembles the return soundings into a 3-D video image of the ocean floor.
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National Defense February 2005 Bill Daniels & DiRenzo	Maritime Anti-Terrorism at the Crossroads Of National Security and Homeland Defense At issue is how do the homeland defense and homeland security duties contribute to enhanced protection of national assets in the territorial seas of the United States.
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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Coast Guard San Francisco Investigates Communications Systems for Crisis Events The U.S. Coast Guard Sector in San Francisco and other military agencies are investigating technologies to build ad-hoc emergency communications systems quickly in the wake of disasters like Hurricane Katrina that bring down commercial telephone, radio, and computer networks.
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 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 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 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.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Jim Gray, Microsoft Scaleable Servers Research Group Microsoft researcher Jim Gray wants to put everything we know about space into a database. It starts with understanding what existence is all about.
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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.
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National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Small Boats on the Front Lines of Maritime Security As the profile of the U.S. Coast Guard's homeland security mission rises, the role of small boat operations is becoming central to the effort.
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