Reports & Interviews

In this exclusive interview, the Chairman of the conference, Air Commodore (Retd) Garfield Porter shared his expert insight on the need for Coast Guards to enhance their operational effectiveness and how they can achieve this through optimised capabilities and interoperability and cooperation between the different nations and agencies

Download this interview to learn more about:

• The critical points for improvement for SAR Operators to enhance operational effectiveness
• The capabilities that will have the greatest effect on enhancing situational awareness in coming years
• Ways in which improved communications will allow maritime organisations to cooperate more effectively in an increasingly network-centric environment
• The role and relationship that industry needs to have with maritime organisations to improve the effectiveness of their deployments

To view the full agenda of the conference, click here.

The complexity of an international SAR or Environmental Response operation, coupled with the high number of nations and agencies involved can make interoperability and the overall efficiency of an operation difficult. Ahead of this year’s Coast Guard Capability conference, Defence IQ gained exclusive insight from Adam Erland, Training and Operations Advisor, Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Maritimes, who will be speaking at this year's conference on "Auxiliary volunteer assistance with response and on-scene environments". 

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• The fundamental challenges faced by Coast Guards, nations and agencies for effective interoperability during an operation
• The place of capabilities in overcoming them
• The technological enablers or platforms which are key in enhancing interoperability during operations
• The current involvement of industry in capability development for Coast Guards

This global market report has been created ahead of this year’s Coast Guard Capability conference. It includes key ongoing programmes and requirements, and upgrades of existing systems and platforms for nations' Coast Guards from across the globe, many of which will participate at this year’s event.

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• Azerbaijan’s commissioning of itsTufan type border guard ship S-206
• Leonardo’s mid-life upgrade of the Canadian CH-149 SAR helicopter fleet
• Greece’s acquisition of three patrol boats
• L-3 Communications’ contract with the US Cost Guard to provide the integrated C4ISR system for its Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter

In this complimentary exclusive global market report, discover selected key programmes and acquisitions from countries from all around the globe, a few of which will be present at Search and Rescue Europe 2018, such as Serbia, Norway, the U.K. and Canada.

TWe look at some of the technology said to be revolutionizing SAR efforts, from L3 airborne navigation systems to Rescue Global’s leaps in Machine Learning and Big Data processing.

This article looks into the impact of technology into modern SAR operations, including:

• Small and large UAVs
• Machine Learning
• Alternatives to GPS and GNSS tracking
• Satellite technology
• Airborne sensors
• Crowdsourcing information
• Mobile robotics