Reshaping Coast Guard Acquisition and Contracting Capabilities
The U.S. Coast Guard has made great strides in recent years that have enabled it to successfully acquire and deliver …
Homeland Security
Unmanned, Over Water, On Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has yet to buy its first unmanned aircraft system (UAS), but a working partnership with …
An Interview with MCPOCG Michael P. Leavitt
The master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard (MCPOCG) is the highest-ranking enlisted member, appointed by each new commandant …
Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters
By the end of 2011, the first of the Coast Guard’s long-awaited Fast Response Cutters will operate out of Miami, …
Forty-two to Tango
Little more than a year after the first-production MH-60T was delivered by the Aviation Logistics Center (ALC) at Elizabeth City …
National Security Cutters
What the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) wanted as it put its new flagship class of cutters to sea was range, …
Border Enforcement: Migrant Interdiction at Sea
For two years now, the trend has held steady: In 2009, the number of arrests of smugglers attempting to travel …
IT and Cybersecurity
Homeland security is a concept as old as the first human communities. But a major modern component – cybersecurity – …
An Interview with Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp
Adm. Robert J. Papp became 24th commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard on May 25, 2010, assuming leadership of the …
The Rita Renaissance
While inextricably attached to a state that is proud to call both regions home, the worlds of southeast and southwest …