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example is the Search and Rescue Hoax and testing of maritime communication The Coast Guard is known worldwide the latest technology – like evaluating

Location Systems and Methods project. solutions for use in the Arctic and the for its expertise in search and rescue, or the potential use of Cubesats as a SAR

It was the ? rst-ever RDC project done development and testing of the next gen- SAR missions. tool – RDC and its partners are at the in conjunction with Coast Guard Inves- eration Arctic navigation safety informa- In support of this critical capability, forefront of research. tigative Service, or CGIS. This project tion system. Signi? cant growth in mari- RDC continues to explore more effec- When looked at in its totality, the addresses the issue of serial hoax call- time traf? c in this region has prompted tive and ef? cient ways to complete this USCG RDC’s portfolio is wide-ranging, ers; individuals who conduct false emer- RDC to research responses to oil in ice, mission. From conducting survival mod- touching every single aspect of the ser- gency calls that cost the service time and which is a complicated pollution re- eling, to testing new alternatives to py- vice … what better way to be meaning- money while potentially impacting the sponse event. rotechnic distress signals, to leveraging ful, relevant and impactful! ability to respond to real emergencies.

The project used a three-part approach to evaluate and demonstrate different technologies that would assist CGIS and other partners with locating, identifying and prosecuting hoax callers within the

Coast Guard domain. The hoax call proj- ect laid the groundwork for future col- laboration with CGIS.

Other research focus areas are em- ploying the same MRI focus. RDC has several projects that assess and evaluate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and unmanned maritime (surface/subsur- face) vehicles (UMVs) for a range of ca- pabilities. This is being done because the use of autonomous systems has grown exponentially in private industry, both in the United States and overseas. Spe- ci? cally, RDC is engaged with a series of testing and assessment from advanced short-range UAS and unmanned mari- time systems (UMS) to a very exciting

Long-Range/Ultra-Long Endurance (LR/U-LE) UAS program.

The Arctic continues to be a focus of the Center’s portfolio, supporting re- search in Coast Guard Districts 17, 9 and 1. The Center has sent a team to the Arc- tic for the last few years to embark on the 420-foot medium icebreaker USCGC

Healy. With private and public partner-

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