Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Cutter Oak In separate actions during the first days of September, Coast Guard cutters picked up 52 Cuban migrants in the waters off of the Bahamas and Key West and returned them to Cuba. On Sept. 2, Coast Guard 7th District command…
Coast Guard sends dozens back to Cuba in early September
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Cutter Oak In separate actions during the first days of September, Coast Guard cutters picked up 52 Cuban migrants in the waters off of the Bahamas and Key West and returned them to Cuba. On Sept. 2, Coast Guard 7th District command…
Coast Guard notes RNC security zones as storm approaches
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Tampa Bay security zones The Coast Guard is advising the maritime community in Florida to batten down its hatches as a potential hurricane tracked toward the state, but warned boaters that security zones in the Tampa Bay area would go into effect…
Coast Guard officially accepts new rescue comms system in Buffalo
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Rear Adm. Michael Parks In official ceremonies and demonstrations on Aug. 22, Coast Guard Sector Buffalo inaugurated a new Rescue 21 communications system. Rescue 21 is the Coast Guard’s advanced command, control, and direction-finding communications system, created to more efficiently locate mariners…
Coast Guard kicks the tires/treads on new arctic vehicles
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Arctic test vehicle As the Coast Guard looks to a more expansive role in the arctic, it is field testing new arctic-capable, amphibious vehicles in Alaska during August. On Aug. 15, it said personnel from the 17th Coast Guard District and the…
Coast Guard gets 100th new medium response boat
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: 100th RB-M The crew of Coast Guard Station St. Ignace, MI. took delivery on Aug. 13 of a new 45-foot Response Boat-Medium (RB-M), marking the 100th of 166 planned for the service. The station crew, said the Coast Guard, will be running…
Latest drug haul emphasizes increasing sea-borne smuggling, says Coast Guard
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Cutter Aspen unloads The seizure of four tons of marijuana from a ship in the Pacific Ocean 160 miles west of Los Angeles on July 26, is only the latest in a record year of water-borne enforcement actions in the area, said…
Coast Guard, local law enforcement in anti-terror drill off NYC
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Image Caption: Coast Guard in STC drill The Coast Guard, along with local and federal law enforcement agencies ran a joint-agency anti-terrorism “Securing the Cities” (STC) exercise on July 18 in the waters of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
General Dynamics continues deploying Coast Guard rescue system
When completed, Rescue 21 will be a network of 32 Coast Guard command centers, 167 stations and more than 260 fixed towers across U.S. and territorial waterways. View full post on Washington Technology: Homeland Security View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
Cisco Voice Engineer- Consulting roles in US-Midwest, Texas, and East Coast
CISCO VOICE ENGINEERS – Midwest, East Coast, Texas Our customer is a leading systems integrator looking to hire several Voice Engineers located in the Midwest, Texas, or the Eastern Coast. Qualified candidates will have 5 to 7 years of hands-on Cisco experience and need to specialize in voice technologies and…