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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
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
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
June 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Port Security Around Singapore Critical to World Economy For a small nation with no natural resources or agricultural industry, maritime and port security are essential to the nation's economic well-being. And security in the straits has global implications. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Kyunghee Park |
A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms. |
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
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
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Homeland Security Policies Overlook Essential Issues, Says Shipping Executive Security industry soothsayers have been sounding alarms about the prospect of a nuclear or biological weapon reaching U.S. shores in a shipping container. |
National Defense
December 2014
Duncan D. Hunter |
Healthy Maritime Industry Vital to National Security Beyond the important contributions to our economy, a healthy maritime industry is vital to our national security. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Moon Ihlwan |
Monsters on the High Seas As China's exports swell, Korea and Japan are launching gargantuan container ships. |
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilders Should Worry About Second-Hand Ship Supply, Study Says As more nations continue to downsize their navies, experts predict that surplus ships will inundate the world market, likely at the expense of new ship construction. |
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
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Surveillance Technology Can Help Identify Hostile Vessels A Web-based software program under development aims to make identifying hostile ships among several benign vessels easier. |
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 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
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. |
National Defense
June 2014
Dan Parsons |
Marines Prepare Modular Force for Future Rife With Conflict Despite a dozen years of combat operations coming to a close, the next decade likely will provide no rest for the war-weary Marine Corps. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Top Tankers Pumps Up Dividend The oil carrier sells off a portion of its fleet, only to lease it back and use the proceeds to reward shareholders. But should demand for oil in China fall off, investors could get a sinking feeling, special dividends or not. |
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
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 21, 2013
Kim Girard |
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport Despite a repeating boom-bust cycle in the shipping industry, owners seem to make the same investment mistakes over time. Can other cyclical industries learn the lessons of the high seas? |
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2005
Philip Durell |
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats? A buoyant shipping market may only lengthen the boom-bust cycle. That's why drybulk vessel operator Excel Maritime Carriers may not be as good as it looks for investors. |
National Defense
January 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Maritime 'Target Drones' Used In Counter-Piracy Training As pirates continue to use small boats to swarm and hijack cargo ships, naval forces increasingly will be employing unmanned systems to help train merchant seaman to fend off attackers. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Willie D. Jones |
You Tell Us: Marine Electronic Highway To head off terrorist threats in the Strait of Malacca, its border countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore propose a marine electronic highway. The real problem is politics. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2010 |
Weekly Top Stock Idea Our investing community's latest prime pick -- Genco Shipping & Trading |
National Defense
February 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Marine Corps Makes Strong Pitch for `Sea Bases' Senior Marine Corps officials are asking Navy leaders to commit to a plan to deploy floating military bases within the next decade. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Awards Raytheon $218 Million Subcontracts Raytheon will provide the electronic systems and integration for the next three ships in the LPD 17 class. |
