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Rescue 21

Rescue 21 is "standing the watch," providing coverage of more than 40,600 miles of U.S. coastline.
Rescue 21 is “standing the watch,” providing coverage of more than 40,600 miles of U.S. coastline.
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Overview

Saving Lives in the 21st Century

The U.S. Coast Guard is modernizing its outdated national distress communications system. The new system, called Rescue 21, will be the nation’s primary maritime emergency system for the more than 78 million boaters and 13 million vessels that navigate coastal and intercoastal waters.

The system will greatly improve the Coast Guard’s ability to detect mayday calls from boaters, pinpoint the location of the source of the call, and coordinate rescue operations throughout the U.S. coastline and interior waterways.

What’s New?

Rescue 21 will replace a wide range of aging, obsolete VHF-FM radio communications equipment:

  • Workstations/consoles at about 270 Coast Guard facilities
  • All remote transceiver sites, as well as the network connecting them to the facilities above
  • Approximately 3,000 portable radios
  • Direction finding capability greatly improved to +/- 2 degrees
  • Communications coverage gaps in existing system greatly reduced

How It Works …

Rescue 21 -- How it works...
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Related Information
 
 Integrated Border Security Solutions
 Maritime Domain Awareness brochure
 Rescue 21
 Rescue 21 Additional Capabilities
 Service Oriented Architecture
 
 
U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. John Currier and Sen. Susan Collins   During the recent acceptance ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Rescue 21, Sector Northern New England, Sen. Susan Collins commented on the value and importance of Rescue 21 and the U.S. Coast Guard’s national mission.
 
 Rescue 21: First Rescue
 
  May 03, 2012: General Dynamics Awarded $176 Million Contract from U.S. Coast Guard for Support of the Rescue 21 System
 
  Sep 30, 2011: U.S. Coast Guard Accepts New Rescue 21 Search and Rescue Communications System in Sector Detroit
 
  Jul 01, 2011: Coast Guard Completes 25,000th Search and Rescue Mission Using General Dynamics-developed Rescue 21 System
 
  Aug 19, 2010: U.S. Coast Guard Accepts Rescue 21 Search-and-Rescue System for Baltimore-Washington Region
 
  Aug 16, 2010: U.S. Coast Guard Celebrates New Rescue 21 System for Sector Baltimore
 
 
  Border Security for the Mission
  Coast Guard
  Command and Control
  Federal Aviation Administration
  Homeland Security
 
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