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Work Boat
Recently, the House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes critical funding for construction of the first Coast Guard polar security cutter (PSC). The act includes $655 million for construction of the first PSC. In addition, the bill provides $20 million for long lead-time materials for the second PSC. This funding should allow the PSC program to remain on schedule to replace the nation’s only current heavy icebreaker, the Coast Guard cutter Polar Star.
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NMLEA
Among the many opportunities to reduce costs related to managing cyber risks across an organization, managing the costs of cyber risk insurance is emerging as another significant advantage of RiskSense (an NMLEA STAR Product). According to the Economist, “Demand for cyber-insurance is growing fast. Satisfying it will pose great challenges for insurers.”
Synopsis: Organizations are re-considering their cybersecurity strategy due to several factors;
- The financial and legal consequences of a breach are increasing.
- The acceleration of cyber threats, including the growing pace and scale of attacks mean organizations cannot stand still.
- The steady growth of the digitally connected enterprise (e.g. IoT), also known as the “Attack Surface” is dramatically increasing cyber risk.
- Increasing end-point, perimeter security tools, or additional compliance-based activities are often ineffective at reducing cyber risk, and
- Organizations are looking for business-case rationale to help drive better cybersecurity strategies.
With spending forecasts projecting global cybersecurity spending to exceed $124 Billion in 2019, the question most often asked is, what should our budget priorities be? Hire or contract with cybersecurity experts? Purchase more scanners and cyber security software?
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Gregory "Cruz" Grutter
I long to see the day where we hold training in the highest regard. Where we look to the training days as just that, a day to train. Where the command staff clearly understand the difference between training and qualification. That training is an event where education and preparation come together. Where it is acceptable to safely train outside of one’s comfort zone. To question, test and find the truth in the tactics, skills and techniques we provide to our rank and file for their survival. Where the staff and officers are provided with appropriate training and are encouraged to participate and get involved. Where the instructors are skilled, encouraging, motivated, passionate and knowledgeable. Where we are permitted to make mistakes because in the real world we cannot.
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SciTech Europa
Aalto University is a Finnish multidisciplinary university founded in 2010 by merging three Finnish universities in economics, art and design and technology. The formerly independent Helsinki University of Technology continues as four Aalto Schools of Technology. Aalto University’s Marine Technology Research Group is responsible for practicing scientific research and providing education at the highest level in Finland with regard to ship and marine technology.
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ZD Net
Internet of things devices are the new kid on the block when it comes to internet active products, and that goes back to 20 years to when people were first really connecting their computers, their desktops, their laptops to the internet. In many ways it feels as though we're at the same stage of internet of things devices. A lot of people in their homes, a lot of organizations in their offices and other buildings are rushing in and applying these internet of things devices to their network. These can include things like monitors, sensors, some of them are everyday products like your kettle.
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Marine Link
On Dec. 28, 2018, the United States Coast Guard published a notice in the Federal Register alerting the maritime industry of its determination to increase the minimum annual rate of random drug testing for 2019 from 25 percent to 50 percent. American Maritime Safety Inc., a nonprofit industry consortium that facilitates the industry’s compliance with these regulations, regrets the Coast Guard’s decision.
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Splash 247
Humans have a tenuous relationship with automation. On balance, we love it. It has made our lives easier. Freed up time for leisure. Freed up time for thinking — about more automation. Progressively, we have made automation cleverer. First, we armed it with simple decision trees, then with supervised reasoning, until we arrived at self-learning mathematical algorithms. Along the way, automation equipped with artificial intelligence allowed us to eliminate human efforts all around.
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The New York Times
The government shutdown that ended recently has taken a lasting hit on the Coast Guard, which has grounded aircraft, stopped major ship repairs and will leave parts of an air station in Puerto Rico without emergency generators for the start of hurricane season because of a backlog that will take months to process. Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show that the Coast Guard’s ship maintenance command lost at least 7,456 productive workdays — or 28.5 years’ worth of workdays — as a direct result of the partial shutdown, which furloughed 6,400 civilian employees.
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Port News
ScanReach has solved a problem no one else can, creating a technology with the potential to usher in a new age of maritime safety, connectivity and smart shipping. All will be revealed at Nor-Shipping 2019. Tucked away in a quiet industrial area in Bergen, Norway, a small team is working on a breakthrough capable of transforming the entire shipping industry. The ScanReach office is busy, yet quiet, as a focused group of digital experts, physicists and maritime software developers put the finishing touches to In:Range, a game changing low-power, internet of things microsensor system.
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Government Technology
Despite a growing number of security incidents and headline data breaches, many security and technology professionals express the view that their government or company or nonprofit organization doesn't make cybersecurity a priority. Here's how you can help.
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The Maritime Executive
Throughout the history of the U.S. Coast Guard, the nation has tasked the service with new missions to respond to all sorts of maritime threats and crisis. Such was the case with the Great Flood of 1913, considered by many as the most devastating flood in U.S. history. Because of this natural disaster, Congress voted to fund federal flood relief and rescue work on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Yocona, one of the "river cutters" funded by Congress, set a precedent for desegregating the nation’s sea service vessels. Within a year of Yocona’s commissioning, it received an entirely black enlisted force, with the exception of officers and non-commissioned officers.
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Marine Link
The Coast Guard recently rescued a 57-year-old man 170 miles west of St. Petersburg, Florida. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg command center watchstanders received a call via satellite from the master of the Mariya Moran, a 120-foot tug, stating a crew member was suffering from chest pains and was in need of medical attention. A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew launched to assist.
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