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Looking Out to 2020: Trends Relevant to the Coast Guard
May 1, 1997
In December 1995, the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard asked CNA to help support the development of a capstone document that describes today's Coast Guard and includes a framework within which to portray its continued relevance to the United States. CNA responded with its Future Directions Study for the United States Coast Guard. The study focused on three issues: traditions, trends, and implications for the service as a whole. In November 1996, the Future Directions study team briefed the senior Coast Guard leadership on our initial findings. The product of the this briefing includes a discussion of Coast Guard core values and characteristics, relevant trends, and four notional end states representing the potential impact of these trends. This document supports that initial, summary presentation of trends with more detailed description of our research.
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Coast Guard Future Directions Study: Capstone Support Analysis
May 1, 1997
This analysis is intended to support Coast Guard development of a capstone publication that articulates a vision of the Coast Guard of 2020. We present our supporting analysis in the following three sections. In section 2, we describe our view of the purpose and enduring characteristics of the Coast Guard, a sea-going armed service within the Department of Transportation. We believe that any vision of the Coast Guard's future must be consistent with its purpose and enduring characteristics. In section 3, we describe how existing Coast Guard missions will be transformed as the Coast Guard moves into the 21st century. In section 4, we describe alternative plans for the Coast Guard to consider in developing its vision. See also CAB 96-96, CIM 499, and CRM 97-17.
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U.S. Coast Guard: Purpose, Characteristics, Contributions, and Worth to the Nation
May 1, 1997
The Commandant of the Coast Guard requested CNA analytical assistance in identifying the Coast Guard's enduring features and in describing its unique character as a multi-missioned institution serving a diverse customer base. This task is an essential feature of a brader study attempting to develop a notional end state for the year 2020 by comparing service missions with trends affecting them. We believe that the future direction of the Coast Guard must be consistent with the service's enduring characteristics and its history and traditions. This report contains a brief history of the organization, a description of Coast Guard purpose and responsibilities, and a discussion of service identity and characteristics, organizational motivation, and national contributions. The reader should understand that his document represents an outsiders view of the Coast Guard.
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USCGC Dallas Med/Black Sea Deployment: Regional Engagement and USCG-USN Interoperability
January 1, 1996
COMSIXTHFLT received several requests from littoral nations for training and interaction in maritime law enforcement, maritime interception, search and rescue, fisheries protection, and other coastal patrol operations. In response, COMSIXTHFLT requested that a U.S. Coast Guard cutter deploy to the Mediterranean and Black Sea from 29 May through 28 August 1995. USCGC DALLAS (WHEC 716) subsequently visited seven nations: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovenia, Italy, and Albania. COMSIXTHFLT requested that a CNA analyst be embarked on USCGC DALLAS to assess the cutter's regional engagement role vis-a-vis U.S. Navy units and to identify analytic issues regarding USCG-USN interpretability. This report examines USCGC DALLAS's operational role during battle-group operations and identifies a number of issues that affect USCG-USN interoperability.
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Hydrofoils for the Fisheries Law Enforcement Mission of the USCG, a Cost/Effectiveness Comparison of Hydrofoils with Conventional Coast Guard Resources
March 1, 1976
The effectiveness and costs of hydrofoil craft with those of conventional Coast Guard platforms, including cutter/helicopter teams, in the performance of the fisheries law enforcement mission are compared. The comparisons are made for various fisheries law enforcement tasks considered independently of one another and of geographic considerations, and also in two specific geographic scenarios, in waters off New England and Alaska, where each platform is required to perform a specific set of tasks. The study also investigates the degree to which hydrofoils, engaged in a primary fisheries law enforcement role, could contribute to the search and rescue (SAR) mission without undue detraction from their primary role.
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Hydrofoils for the Fisheries Law Enforcement Mission of the U.S. Coast Guard, Appendixes Describing Methodology
March 1, 1976
This volume describes in detail some of the methodology used in the analyses presented in volume I, including: the application of the Navy Billet Cost Model for the computation of Coast Guard personnel costs; the methods used to compute the cost/effectiveness of hydrofoils and various conventional Coast Guard resources in performing a variety of fisheries law enforcement tasks; and the computer model developed to compute the possible contribution to SAR of hydrofoils engaged in a primary fisheries law enforcement role.
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The Utility of High-Performance Watercraft for Selected Missions of the United States Coast Guard
August 1, 1974
Examines the cost effectiveness and cost of high-performance watercraft used in three Coast Guard missions: search and rescue (SAR); aids to navigation; and marine fisheries law enforcement. A historical SAR data base is analyzed and the inclusion of air cushion vehicles (ACV's) in the SAR force mix is examined. Utility of ACV's and faster conventional river tenders on the Western Rivers is analyzed. The hydrofoil is compared with conventional craft for the marine fisheries law enforcement mission.
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