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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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Bollinger Shipyards delivered to the Coast Guard the 25th 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, the USCGC Jacob Poroo, which will be the second FRC stationed in Pascagoula, Miss. The Poroo will be commissioned on Nov. 8. So far the Coast Guard has ordered 38 of the 58 FRCs it plans to buy.The Critical Infrastructure Research Institute has received a $640,000 award from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate for research into prepositioned cyber-threats in mobile devices that originate…

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