Failure to Navigate: Billions Later, Plan to Remake the Coast Guard Fleet Stumbles
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The initial venture has been canceled after hull cracks and engine failures made the first eight boats unseaworthy.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an earth-friendly source of fuel.  Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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The decision to restore a series of provisions meant to protect whales was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
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In 1972, tires were used to create an artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but decades later the idea has proved a huge ecological blunder.
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Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" -- largely because of shortfalls in equipment worth billions of dollars -- jeopardizing the Guard's ability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released a preliminary report today on the state of U.S. military reserve forces....
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An effort to buy floating barriers to protect the nation's fleet from attacks several years ago led to millions of dollars in waste and may have involved criminal fraud by a government employee and contractor, officials of the Navy and the U.S. General Services Administration told a House...
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Holidaymakers who thought they had lost out on a cruise after Travelscope's collapse may have a lifeline.
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The United States is better prepared to deal with a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf region in 2005, but still lacks a formal structure for coordinating a national response, the head of the U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a weekâs worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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Squeezed by budget constraints, the Navy is proposing significant cuts in its shipbuilding program that could batter the struggling industry.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the ship in the choppy Caribbean waters and began counting crew members, but the numbers did not match those given earlier.
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Troubled Navy contract spurs delay, and possible earnings hit.
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Earthâs widening belt of clutter puts future space exploration at risk, but the solutions are expensive.
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The U.S. National Guard has been strained by multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and faces equipment shortfalls totaling tens of billions of dollars, the Guard's top general said on Wednesday.
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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.