The U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, attends the Association for Rescue at Sea award ceremony Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Carmen Caver)
The fiscal 2027 budget request calls for billions and billions more for the service. But amid the spring of subsidized hope, there is a cold-snap of congressional…
Team members from the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, and Water Mapping experts get underway for advanced drone training with the USCG Cutter Blackfin, off the Santa Barbara coast, July 25, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard B. Uranga).
“Most of the interest is domestic," an official said. "It is the World Cup sites, it is domestically-hosted events that are nationally significant security events.”
Coast Guard members conduct Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) training aboard Cutter Robert Ward (WPC 1130) off the coast of San Pedro, Dec. 18, 2025. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Roberto Nieves)
The technologies and services would be intended to help with the surveillance, detection, classification and identification of maritime “targets of interest."
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Roth, Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) technician, EOD Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, surfaces from an underwater dive at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak in Kodiak, Alaska, Feb. 27, 2026, as part of ARCTIC EDGE 2026 (AE26). (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Thirteen Bahizi)
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Carl Taylor, an information systems technician assigned to Electronics Support Detachment Mayport, Florida, reimages newly assigned laptops delivered to Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Florida, April 5, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena)
Admiral Kevin Lunday prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing to be the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutter USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr. (WPC 1146) sails alongside a MARTAC T-38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel in the Arabian Gulf, June 1, 2023, during exercise Eagle Resolve 23. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. James Webster)
As the Coast Guard embraces these new systems in what it has deemed historic drug hauls, leaders are also wary about how its expansive, but tech-reliant maritime…
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Kimble Petersen, an aviation survival technician assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in Kapolei, Hawaii, scans the scene below while being hoisted down from a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter during a training exercise in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Nov. 12, 2025. Cliff-side and vertical hoist missions often occur in remote or inaccessible terrain, requiring precise aircraft positioning and environmental awareness to avoid obstacles and wind shear. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Robertson)
Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, claps during the 144th Commencement Exercises at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, May 21, 2025. (DHS photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Mikaela McGee.)
U.S. Cyber Command operators participate in Cyber Guard 25-2 exercise on June 3, 2025, at Fort George G. Meade, MD. The exercise, in coordination with the Joint Staff, simulates scenarios that test response protocols and defensive and offensive techniques across geographic areas of responsibility. (Photo credit: U.S. Cyber Command)
As part of the scenario, the enemy was attacking multiple ports, forcing the participants to figure out the best way to defend them and exercise greater command…
