Craig Collins

Craig Collins is a veteran freelance writer and a regular Faircount Media Group contributor who has almost twenty years experience reporting about government, the military, health care and the sciences.

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P-3 Orion

CBP’s P-3 Orion Maritime Surveillance Program U.S. Customs and Border Protection patrols the transit zone

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April 2013 was a big month for cocaine busts in the Central American Transit Zone, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was, as usual, in the middle of things. …

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Operation Martillo

Operation Martillo: The Hammer Hasn’t Fallen – Yet The effects of sequestration on the international anti-drug effort in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific may have been exaggerated – but it’s still too early to tell.

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When Operation Martillo (Spanish for “hammer”) was launched in mid-January of 2012, it didn’t take long for the initiative – a multinational detection and interdiction effort targeting illegal trafficking routes …

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The AGE GeoGlobe is a 3-D terrain visualization and analysis tool that operates either online using federated enterprise servers or as a stand-alone system in disconnected environments. Courtesy KGC Terrain Analysis Branch

U.S. Army Geospatial Center Home of the Army's geospatial expertise

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In 2009, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reorganized the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC) into a major subordinate command. This marked a significant movement in establishing a “Ground …

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Sequestration

Cybersecurity and Sequestration It seems unlikely that cybersecurity programs will suffer much under sequestration — but Congress’s new way of budgeting may already be doing some damage.

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When sequestration hit on March 1, it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for federal employees charged with protecting the nation’s public and private networks – in fact, events …

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Agricultural Biosecurity

Agricultural Biosecurity: Protecting the Nation’s Food Supply

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For most who recall the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak that swept through Britain in the spring and summer of 2001, those months can be boiled down to a single indelible …

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2014 Defense Budget

The 2014 Defense Budget Request: Another Whack at Personnel Costs

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On April 10, when the Department of Defense (DoD) finally released its 2014 Defense budget request, there was one thing everyone could agree on: The numbers in it didn’t mean …

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Nashville District, Hydroelectric Design Center charged to assess switchyards

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Work The nation's environmental engineers

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It’s no exaggeration: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) environmental work in the United States, and in support of military installations and other international customers around the world, comprises …

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Gen.Dempsey, SECDEF Hagel, budget

The 2014 Defense Budget Request Invites a New Round of Head-scratching The Pentagon's fake budget?

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When the Obama Administration finally released its 2014 budget proposal on April 10 – more then two months later than required by law – DoD‘s defense budget proposal contained provisions …

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CGC Rush, high seas drift net fishing

Securing the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

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On Dec. 24, 2012, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi and its partners in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department had already seized more illegal long lines and gill nets …

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Sequestration Affects Military Families

Sequestration Affects Military Families What could happen – and what won’t

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After the sequestration hammer fell on March 1, Congress immediately began considering options for cushioning the blow to some federal programs. In signing the sequestration order, President Barack Obama, exercising …

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