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Coastal defense heads into Deepwater
Homeland security doesn't end at the coastline. In fact, it goes deep, with a multi-year, multi-billion dollar program to modernize the Coast Guard's fleet and substantially upgrade command, control and logistics systems. The Deepwater project, the largest comprehensive overhaul of the Coast Guard's ship and air capabilities ever undertaken, will accomplish all this and more.
It encompasses three classes of new cutters, new and upgraded helicopters, and both land- and cutter-based unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), all linked to Command, Control, Communications and Computers, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Picture a completely integrated coastal defense force.
NGSS has already been awarded Frost & Sullivan's Technology Leadership Award for Deepwater, recognizing "technology, products, offerings and services that are uniquely capable of meeting challenges in a particular application area." With a projected forty-year lifespan, the Deepwater era is just beginning.
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