“In your careers you’ll be leading a Coast Guard that is more capable agile and well equipped than ever before in its 217-year history,” Vice President Dick Cheney said in the at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy today (pictured).
“The Coast Guard’s maritime safety inspection program is staffed by unqualified personnel who don’t follow proper procedures and mismanage their backlog of thousands of unfinished investigations according to an internal report by the inspector general of the Department Homeland Security,” . “[But] the service wants to keep its maritime oversight powers even after gaining a slew of new post-Sept. 11 security responsibilities.”
According to maritime consultant who has extensive contacts inside the shipbuilding industry the Coast Guard has resorted to truly desperate measures in order to compensate for on its new $500-million National Security Cutter. The existing communications system leaks classified data and might take 18 months to fix so in the mean time the Coast Guard has installed a stop-gap radio.
An Army-style hand-held radio pack. One that’s not even certified by the NSA for secure communications. Big improvement.
[…] Yes the Coast Guard’s $25-billion Deepwater technology scheme is a mess with late and over-budget ships canceled contracts and one $500-million frigate that can’t talk to the outside world. But there’s a bright side: aviation as I wrote in the latest Warships International Fleet Review: […] Pingback by 05.25.08 @
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