Coast Guard

Harris wins $7M radio order under $3B TacCom vehicle

Harris will provide two types of radios under its TacCom vehicle to the DHS, Coast Guard and FEMA.

  • By Mark Hoover

Lockheed to help Coast Guard take health records wireless

Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide the U.S. Coast Guard with MONAXOffice system, which aims to improve the updating of electronic health recrods on wireless devices.

  • By Mark Hoover

General Dynamics continues deploying Coast Guard rescue system

When completed, Rescue 21 will be a network of 32 Coast Guard command centers, 167 stations and more than 260 fixed towers across U.S. and territorial waterways.

  • By David Hubler

How one small business embraced the cloud and won

Global Computer Enterprises reached for cloud computing more than six years ago and was one of the first to offer the service to government agencies.

  • By David Hubler

$27B later, Deepwater project killed

The Coast Guard officials didn't mince words in declaring the decade-old acquisition program over. What lessons do they say they learned?

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Booz Allen pipes aboard Coast Guard admiral as senior VP

As senior vice president, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen will lead Booz Allen’s justice and homeland security business unit’s thought leadership and client engagement.

  • By David Hubler
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Macfadden to shore up Coast Guard financial system

Macfadden & Associates Inc. has won a five-year, $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide financial management support.

  • By David Hubler

Government sues, alleging contractor botched Coast Guard acquisition

The federal government has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Coast Guard, accusing Bollinger Shipyards of false statements in connection with the Deepwater acquisition program.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Deepwater costs hit $29B and rising, GAO says

It still is not smooth sailing for the Coast Guard's Deepwater program in which costs continue to go up, according to a new report.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Coast Guard accused of 20 Anti-Deficiency Act wrongs totaling $7M

The inspector general found that Coast Guard managers violated the Anti-Deficiency Act in the recent response boat acquisition.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Coast Guard acquisition forecast may be unrealistic, says GAO

The Coast Guard acquisition unit might be setting itself up for disappointment because of its unrealistic forecast of a jump in available procurement dollars, a GAO official testified.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Lockheed provides Coast Guard with training, tech support

Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide training and technical support to the Coast Guard under a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a $57 million ceiling value.

  • By David Hubler

Services, IT support cut to save millions in Coast Guard's 2012 budget

The Coast Guard is looking for savings from contractors and reduced IT support to shift resources to its operations.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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Lockheed agrees to settle Deepwater False Claims lawsuit

A whistle-blower and Lockheed Martin have signed a settlement for an undisclosed amount, but the fight with Northrop Grumman continues.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Ace Info wins $145M Coast Guard IT contract

Ace Info Solutions Inc., a small-business Homeland Security Department contractor, will provide the Coast Guard with a range of information technology services, thanks to a five-year, $145 million Core Technologies Services contract from the Coast Guard Operations Systems Center in Kearneysville, W.Va.

  • By David Hubler

Money pit: $3B in cost overruns for Coast Guard's Deepwater procurement

The Coast Guard's Deepwater asset procurement program has seen its costs skyrocket while its performance capabilities degrade, according to a new report from the GAO.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Coast Guard seeks oil spill technology

The Coast Guard is, perhaps belatedly, seeking technologies to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • By Michael Hardy

A-T Solutions adds retired admiral to steer business unit

A-T Solutions Inc. has named retired Coast Guard Vice Adm. David Pekoske executive vice president. He will be responsible for developing and managing the company’s international maritime and port security business unit.

  • By David Hubler

Agencies create Facebook pages for Deepwater and floods

FEMA and other federal agencies are establishing Facebook pages to help with disaster responses.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Alion to boost Coast Guard human resources, ship-design capabilities

Alion Science and Technology Corp. will help the Coast Guard improve its human resources capabilities; ship engineering design; and command, control, communications, computers and information technology acquisitions under a five-year, $9.5 million contract.

  • By David Hubler

Deepwater whistle-blower case moves forward

A federal judge on April 5 allowed part of the Deepwater False Claims act lawsuit to be dismissed but held that the remainder should go forward.

  • By Alice Lipowicz