"When you look ahead to what the Coast Guard needs to do its missions in evolving Arctic conditions, you see that there's more open water, there's more human activity, and there's more maritime traffic. But the ice is still there, and its movements are becoming more unpredictable. You really need…
02/10/2011 - Video The crew from Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay rescue a man from a small island located in Redwood Creek after his boat overturned.
An Interview With Admiral Day 12/09/2010 - "Let's talk about how C4ISR is used in support of Coast Guard missions. And what changes have occurred—drastic changes—in the last 10 years and the drastic changes that are going to be needed even in the next five. These changes may or may…
Photobrief: On our tour of the Elizabeth City USCG station there were several examples of the state of the infrastructure and of needs for modernization.
The military impact of equipment shortfalls and delayed modernization efforts is sometimes difficult to measure. When a crisis like Haiti happens, the U.S. military responds and is able to work with allies across the region, obscuring the shortfalls’ true effect.
The pressing need to modernize U.S. Coast Guard long-range assets has been discussed frequently in many different venues. But there has been less focus on the key issues of the other assets, which the USCG needs to modernize.
Network centric warfare has hijacked the common understanding of the impact of C4ISR. The ability to connect assets is central to effectiveness in performance of missions, and in a period where platform acquisition will be more difficult, the ability of the US and its allies to work together is increasingly…
The global changes induced by the war against terrorism with global means and the rise of key regional power centers are reshaping the maritime strategic environment. It is the coexistence of these two dynamics which is central for the period ahead.
