Department Of Defense
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- FY 1993 Budget For Coast Guard Shows Increase Over FY 1992 Maritime Reporter, May 1992 #71
$3.72 Billion Appropriated For Fiscal Year (FY) 1993, the budget proposes a funding level of $3,718 billion in appropriations for the U.S. Coast Guard, a five percent increase over the FY 1992 level.
Included in the total are $203 million to be transferred from the Department of Defense and $70 million from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
The budget assumes the collection of $117 million in user fees for selected Coast Guard services.
Highlights of the USCG budget include: Operating Expenses—The $2.603-billion request funds continued operation and maintenance of a wide range of multimission vessels, aircraft, shore units and aids-tonavigation.
Within the funding are: —$142.1 million to be funded by the Department of Defense for transfer to Coast Guard; —$31.9 million from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; —$35 million from the Boat Safety account.
Capital Improvement—The $414-million request funds continued replacement and modernization of major components of the Coast Guard's extensive vessel and boat fleets, including buoy tenders, motor life boats, patrol boats and icebreakers. Within the funding are: —$18 million to be funded by the Department of Defense for transfer to Coast Guard; —$33.8 million from the Oil Spill Liability Fund; —$132 million for shore facility renovation and construction.
Environmental Compliance & Restoration—The $30.5-million request is a 42 percent increase over FY 1992. Funding will be used to carry out the Coast Guard's responsibility to improve environmental problems resulting from construction and operation of former and current service facilities.
Research Development, Test & Evaluation—The $29.9-million request will be used to provide development of equipment and methods which contribute to increasing the productivity of the Coast Guard's operating programs. Funding includes: —$4 million from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Boat Safety Grants—The $35- million authorization will assist states in the development and implementation of a coordinated National Boating Safety Program.
Oil Spill Cleanup and Initial Damage Assessment—The $50- million appropriation from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund will be used to finance cleanup and assessment operations. In addition, the Coast Guard will pay valid uncompensated claims of parties suffering damages from oil spills.
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- Defense Department's First Two-Year Budget Cycle To Begin For FY88 Maritime Reporter, Sep 1986 #37
Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft IV announced recently that the Department of Defense would use its current review of the FY 1988 defense program and budget to assess the requirements for both FY 1988 and FY 1989. The product of this review will be a twoyear budget. Because this year's
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- SPD Battery Monitoring System Praised By Canadian DOD Maritime Reporter, Apr 1992 #46
The Canadian Department of Defense recently installed an SPD computerized, all-cell battery monitoring system aboard one of the Canadian Navy's diesel-powered submarines. 36 The system, which was placed onboard the HMCS Onandaga, recently completed final testing after being retrofitted at the HMCS
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- Doing Business With The Navy Maritime Reporter, Jun 1983 #77
"The Department of Defense has neither an on-going program nor an adequate plan to address the defense industrial base preparedness issue ; Department of Defense inaction in enhancing industrial base preparedness—coupled with instability within the five-year defense program, weapon system procurement
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- NAVY SEALIFT SHIP PROGRAM TO INJECT $1.3 BILLION INTO U.S. MARITIME INDUSTRY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT PLANNING 5 YEAR PROGRAM Maritime Reporter, Feb 1991 #46
determining whether adequate manpower is available to support the operation of reserve ships during a crisis. In peacetime, the Department of Defense will operate the minimum number of sealift ships, including reserve ships to meet the Joint Chiefs of Staff exercise requirements and shipping
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- Free Pamphlet Details How To Buy DoD Surplus Personal Property Maritime Reporter, Apr 1989 #64
A free 50-page pamphlet entitled "How To Buy Surplus Personal Property from the United States Department of Defense" is being offered free by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service. The pamphlet assists individuals, or businesses desiring to buy surplus personal property of the Department of
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- MarAd Issues Order Regarding Seabulk America Maritime Reporter, Sep 1994 #97
of intermodal transportation systems, including ships, ships' space, intermodal equipment and related management services, and to maximize the Department of Defense's use of commercial transportation resources to support the emergency deployment and sustainment of U.S. military forces through cooperation am
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- MSC Seeks Bids To Operate Five Tankers Maritime Reporter, Dec 1978 #29
has issued a request for proposals (November 8) to operate five command-controlled tankers that deliver petroleum products worldwide for the Department of Defense. The T-5 type tankers now are operated by Hudson Waterways Corp. of New York City under a contract initially awarded in October 1972
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- USMI: 35 Years and Going Strong Marine News, Jun 2019 #38
more than one month ago, on April 16, 2019, Gulfport, MS-based United States Marine Inc. (USMI) celebrated its 35th anniversary of continuous Department of Defense production, with hopes of many more years to come. According to CEO and President Barry Dreyfus, Jr., they’ll do just that by exceeding customer
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- Changes In The Navy Shipbuilding Program — An Update — Maritime Reporter, Nov 15, 1983 #16
Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue jointly guidelines for determining under what circumstances the Department of Defense may use lease arrangements for aircraft and naval vessels rather than directly procuring such aircraft and vessels. (4) Funds appropriated
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- Competition, Quality and Demand Come Together Marine News, Jun 2015 #36
Commercial Sales for 15-meter to 28-meter vessels.” Two major avenues that exist for overseas business are Foreign Military Sales, with the U.S. Department of Defense as negotiator, and Direct Commercial Sales, Shah explained. DCS is arranged directly between a vendor and a customer, with an export license
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- Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff? Maritime Reporter, May 2013 #14
Agriculture, Homeland Security, Commerce/Justice/State, as well as the two funding measures already passed by the House of Representatives for the Department of Defense and the Military-Construction-Veterans Affairs budgets. The five specific measures gave greater guidance and in some cases a budget boost
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 45ronments. The new agreement will address speci? c techni- cal gaps in the UUV defense and offshore energy markets especially for long duration, multi-payload mission opera- tions where communications are often denied or restricted. As part of the new alliance, Metron’s Resilient Mission Autonomy portfolio
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 13nyone familiar with glider hardware options integrated for a broad Glider answers that need,” said Shea autonomous underwater ve- range of missions. Quinn, Slocum Glider Product Line hicles (AUVs) is certainly “As the use of Slocum Gliders grew, Manager at TWR. A familiar with the popular- so did
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11assist in identifying mines and act as a neutralization device. About the Author Bottom mines pose even greater chal- David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of lenges. Unlike contact mines, bottom Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory mines utilize a range of sensors to
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8INSIGHTS SUBSEA DEFENSE Copyright RomanenkoAlexey/AdobeStock WHEN THE SHOOTING STOPS: BLACK SEA MINE CLEARANCE WILL FEATURE ADVANCED TECH, CONOPS By David Strachan, Senior Analyst, Strikepod Systems ince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, mine warfare mines have been the weapon of choice for both
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6MTR Editorial Advisors Gallaudet Hardy The Honorable Tim Gallaudet, Kevin Hardy is President PhD, Rear Admiral, U.S. of Global Ocean Design, Navy (ret) is the CEO of creating components and Ocean STL Consulting and subsystems for unmanned host of The American Blue vehicles, following a career
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2March/April 2024 On the Cover Volume 67 • Number 3 Image courtesy NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP / Rebekah Parsons-King 8 Subsea Defense Black Sea Mines When the shooting stops in the Ukraine, the tough work of clearing mines will commence. By David Strachan 12 Gliders Slocum Sentinel 22 Teledyne
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28FEATURE INTERVIEW track missiles and warheads for the Mis- sile Defense Agency, and it travels with its support ship, the MV Hercules. For our Service Support ships, we have the two hospital ships, USNS Mer- cy and Comfort; two rescue and salvage ships; two submarine tenders; and the Sixth Fleet ?
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and renamed Military Sealift Command in 1970, MSC today not only support the Navy, but we are the Department of Defense’s provider of all sealift. Maritime Reporter & Engineering News recently interviewed Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, U.S. Navy, for insights on
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 222030. Adding dredges, rock installation vessels, cable layers Langford. “With new lease rounds coming and new opportu- and feeder vessels, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates nities, we do not see a big slowdown for OSW developments a total of 110 vessels.” apart from the obvious project delays and
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6this tragic event will echo Sobeck is charged to ensure that the U.S. Editor - MarineNews Eric Haun through the maritime, ports and logistics Department of Defense has the appropriate [email protected] community for a generation, and trust it will amount of ready sealift capability, a capabil- Offshore
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 2the Cover: U.S. Navy photograph by Brian Suriani/Released Photo this page: Copyright Björn Wylezich/AdobeStock 16 SOVs: Analyzing the Market Drivers Departments As offshore wind grows globally, so too do the dynamics around SOVs. By Philip Lewis 4 Authors & Contributors 6 Editorial 8 Training Tips for Ships 20
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 42Robinson the Towing Vessel Inspection Bu- Savage Pagan Jayson Robinson has been reau, moving from the operations named Vigor’s vice president of department to member services. fabrication. Webb Institute Promotes Austal USA Names Martin Parsons VP Webb Institute has promoted Mi- Austal USA has named
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 40General Arnold, built by C&C Marine and Repair in Belle 12-inch General Eisenhower, and the 8-inch General Swing. Esperanza “Hope” Andrade The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) christened its new ferry in Galveston Bay. Named for the ? rst female chair of the TxDOT and ? rst Latina Secre- tary
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 25though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21and opera- The notice includes an upfront issue: the need to mitigate tions pose consequences for maybe the next 100 years. con? icts with U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) ac- Safe transit: Coast Guard has “several equities” tivities. BOEM explains that in certain areas the Air Force BOEM’s December sale
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 19• Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 18urgency of ad- The recent Executive Order aims to bridge these gaps dressing vulnerabilities in a sector that drives over $5.4 tril- by enhancing the Department of Homeland Security’s au- lion in economic activity annually. This initiative is not thority to mitigate maritime cyber threats and sign
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 16OpEd Shipbuilding U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding and Repair Industry Ensures American Strength at Sea By Matthew Paxton, President, Shipbuilders Council of America As Senator Roger Wicker force, the U.S. is falling behind. China, Korea and Japan of Mississippi once said, “Growth in commercial ship-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 14Insights tion on a couple of issues, including engine room crew- For AWO, as an organization, what is its top ing on ATBs with automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Gua
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12current testing modalities that have been approved. We are the challenges involved as well as forthright in describing all strongly supporting the Department of Transportation’s de- the bene? ts so that folks know that the industry is out there cision to allow oral ? uid testing as a drug testing alterna-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 8$158 billion moved on the U.S. inland waterways system, which includes a vast network of 12,000 miles of connecting waterways and 219 locks. The U.S. Department of Transportation Freight Analysis Framework freight forecasts suggest total water tonnage will increase at an annual growth of 0.7% per year through
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27security, and that’s increasingly (and The MSP ? eet is available to support in MSP, Endurance is still the most equally) important.” U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) militarily useful vessel in the U.S.-? ag The Maritime Security Program sustainment sealift requirements during ? eet.” The Importance