The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week released a Small Vessel Security Strategy (SVSS) that begins to focus the nation's attention on the potential threat from small boats such as fishing and recreational vessels and outlines four key goals toward achieving a multi-layered approach to close security gaps and reduce risks associated with small vessels, including leveraging technology. The new strategy, which is an outcome of a small vessel security summit hosted by DHS last summer that brought together…
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