Navy, Coast Guard May Expand Cooperative Port Surveillance Operations

By Jason Sherman / April 5, 2005 at 5:00 AM
The Navy and Coast Guard are considering expanding a cooperative port harbor surveillance pilot program to give more American harbors a command and control operations center capable of coordinating a response to a maritime terrorist threat. Senior officials from both services are exploring options to establish Joint Harbor Operation Centers (JHOC) like those recently put in place at San Diego, CA and Norfolk, VA, at other ports used by Navy and Coast Guard. These operations centers, part of a pilot...

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