When Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 20, the leadership team of a small Alaska Native Corporation half a world away jumped into action to help their extended family of employees. The Sitnasuak Native Corporation of Nome has more than 800 employees in Puerto Rico at SNC Technical Services, LLC (SNCT), […]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — U.S. Coast Guardsmen and U.S. Navy sailors conducted shipboard dive operations from a Coast Guard cutter in the Arctic July 29 for the first time since two Coast Guard divers perished in a subsurface accident almost 11 years ago. Shipboard Arctic dive operations increase the Coast Guard’s ability to assure year-round access […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard and the Alaska Air National Guard’s 249th Airlift Squadron delivered supplies and equipment to the Coast Guard’s seasonal forward operating location in Kotzebue, Alaska, Monday in preparation for the anticipated increase of maritime activities this summer in Western Alaska and the Bering Sea. A C-17 Globemaster III aircrew loaded […]
ARLINGTON, Va.—As diminishing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean expands navigable waters, scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have traveled to the region to study the changing environment—and provide new tools to help the U.S. Navy operate in a once-inaccessible area. “This changing environment is opening the Arctic for expanded maritime and naval […]