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Coast Guard, DoD Plan To Research, Test Communications In Arctic With Healy Deployment

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

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Coast Guard, DoD Plan To Research, Test Communications In Arctic With Healy Deployment

Coast Guard medium polar icebreaker Healy with mountains of Southeast Alaska in background. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard’s medium icebreaker Healy on July 22 departed its homeport in Seattle for a months-long Arctic mission that will include a number of research and test evaluations of communications capabilities in the remote ocean. Communications, and in particular the need to close communications gaps, are key talking points in the Coast Guard’s new Arctic strategy, which was released in April (Defense Daily, April 22). “In order to operate effectively, maintain MDA, and share information across the maritime community,…

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