A cruise on the USCGC Bernard C. Webber
In town on a rainy day during a tour up from its homeport of Miami, the Coast Guard's first Fast Repose Cutter, the USCGC Bernard C. Webber, took reporters on a short cruise down the Potomac on...
Coast Guard recapitalization falls short, says fleet mix analysis
A fleet mix unconstrained by budget would result in nine NSCs, 57 OPCs and 91 FRCs, resulting in 100 percent more major cutter hours of operation.
Backgrounder: National Preparedness Grant Program
In the Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget request, DHS proposed consolidating 16 of its 18 preparedness grant programs into a single the National Preparedness Grant Program. Those programs include grants for port security, transit security and urban areas.
No new metric for border security until 2013
A permanent metric to measure border security may be ready around the start of calendar year 2013, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher told the House Homeland Security subcommittee on border and maritime security.
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House and Senate appropriators reject National Preparedness Grant Program proposal
House lawmakers have been skeptical from the start of the NPGP proposal, while administration officials have argued that grant consolidation would result in better coordination of preparedness efforts.
Stratton rusting not a class-wide problem, says Coast Guard
Crew members aboard the Stratton reported in April the presence of seawater in the ship, leading to an underwater inspection that found concentrated corrosion.
Mueller addresses leak in recently foiled AQAP bomb plot
Discussions with foreign intelligence partners are ongoing to minimize fallout after someone leaked information to the media about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's recently foiled bomb plot, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee May 16.
Civil liberties watchdogs oppose Senate cybersecurity bill
Some of the objections outlined in the letter are similar to privacy and civil liberties watchdogs' objections to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act the House approved April 25.
Bitcoin's limited anonymity means it'll mainly be for donations to 'disreputable groups,' says FBI
Nonetheless, as long as there exists a way to convert bitcoins into legal tender, criminal actors will have an incentive to steal them, the FBI analysis also states.
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