General Dynamics announced Tuesday it has turned control of its Rescue 21 Search and Rescue Communications System in Sector San Juan over to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Falls Church, Va.-based firm said Sector San Juan, located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the command center for all Coast Guard missions in Puerto Rico [...]
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The Coast Guard has formally accepted a new digital search and rescue communications system from General Dynamics for the Guard’s Northern New England sector. The company said said its C4 systems unit delivered the Rescue 21 system for the sector to respond to emergencies and calls from mariners. The sector covers 5,000 coastal miles from [...]
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The Coast Guard purchased 100 units of Unisys‘ stealth solution for secure virtual terminal intended to give mobile workers secure access to Coast Guard networks and data, Unisys announced Tuesday. According to Unisys, the terminal combines the solution with a USB device certified by the federal government. The company said users plug the unit into [...]
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Richard Skinner, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, announced in a report that many of the most popular DHS sites are vulnerable to hackers, a problem that could result in the loss or misuse of DHS data. The most frequently visited websites were audited and were found to have basic security protocols. However, security [...]
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