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Coast Guard’s New Force Design Calls For Integrated Maritime Surveillance Capability

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025

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Coast Guard’s New Force Design Calls For Integrated Maritime Surveillance Capability

Coast Guard cutter operating with a Saildrone unmanned surface vessel. Photo: Saildrone

A new blueprint that restructures the Coast Guard’s organization also puts a focus on technology advancement, directing the service to develop an integrated sensor and command and control network that brings together its maritime surveillance nodes and applies artificial intelligence to improve domain awareness. The Coastal Sentinel system would create a “next generation maritime surveillance capability” to replace existing obsolete systems, the service says in Force Design 2028 that was released on Wednesday (Defense Daily, May 21). “This is needed…

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