New HDK Brings Explosive & Drugs Detection to a New Level

As terrorist and criminals become adept to explosive and drug detection technologies, authorities must also adapt and improve. Criminal and terrorist organizations increasingly exploit commercial precursors to create explosives. Concealment of explosives and...

Coast Guard Cutters Offload Tons of Cocaine in St. Petersburg (Video)

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Pelican offloaded approximately one ton of cocaine, worth more than $23 million wholesale, and three suspected smugglers Monday in St. Petersburg that was seized...
Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered, the Coast Guard's fourth Sentinel Class patrol boat (Image courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard by Petty Officer 3rd Class Mark Barney)

New Fast Response Cutters Named for Coast Guard Heroes (Multi-Video)

In 1830, the Revenue Cutter Service, predecessor to the modern Coast Guard launched its first standardized multi-ship class of cutters. The Morris-class, named for the first cutter in the class, Robert Morris,...

US Navy Awards BAE Systems $139M Contract to Upgrade USS Tortuga

The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $139.8 million contract to modernize the dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46). The USS Tortuga is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy and the second...

Arktis Named to DoD $8.2B CBRNE Contract for Homeland Security

Arktis Detection Systems a leading provider of radiological and nuclear detection services, has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Enterprise-Research, Development, Acquisition, and Production/Procurement (JE-RDAP)...

Next Navy Expeditionary Sea Base Named for Vietnam USMC MOH

Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer has announced the Navy's newest Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship, T-ESB 5, will be named in honor of Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Medal...
Guided Missle Destroyers can Engage Targets On, Above and Below the Ocean (Image courtesy of Ingalls Shipbuilding)

DDG Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers – Defending the Fleet (Multi-Video)

DDG 51 destroyers provide multi-mission capabilities, operating independently or as part of carrier strike groups, surface action groups, amphibious ready groups and replenishment groups. Aegis guided missile destroyers are multi-mission surface combatants,...

Join Regional Explosives Detection Dog Initiative Training (See Video)

The Regional Explosives Detection Dog Initiative (REDDI) will be hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), a Finalist in the 2017 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, at...
Delbert D. Black will be the 69th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and is currently the fifth of 13 ships currently under contract for the DDG 51 program. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

Navy to Christen Guided-Missile Destroyer Delbert D. Black (Video)

The Navy will christen the newest guided-missile destroyer the future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), Saturday, November 4 during a 10:00 a.m. CDT ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjMidsSprFg (Ingalls...

CBP Nabs Wanted Criminals Arriving in US Aboard Cruise Ships

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the Houston/Galveston Seaport arrested 15 wanted persons in separate incidents in the first month of fiscal year 2018. The wanted persons were each...