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The Power Platform Hackathon logo.

Dec. 4, 2024

The Hackathon is back: Vote for your favorite Coast Guard deck plate developer app

Join us this Friday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon EST, when members present six time-saving apps!

A graphic encouraging participation in Coast Guard Innovations

Aug. 22, 2024

Coast Guard Innovation Program wants your help for its Silver Jubilee

New CG_Ideas@Work challenge asks how to improve the program.

Capt. Brian Maggi, Head of Civil Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy, holds up a drone during a training course at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn, Feb 21, 2023. The Coast Guard Short Ranged Unmanned Aerial Systems (SR-UAS) program is designed to create designated pilots and integrate drone capabilities into various missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme)

July 23, 2024

Short-Range Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Challenging the status quo

How to boost your programs' efficiency, safety, and reduce costs for various missions.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jennifer Brown and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Adam Peers were awarded golden keyboards on April 11, 2024, at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC, for the winning apps they created for the Power Platform Science Fair. Standing from left to right, Brian Campo, Acting Chief Information Officer of CG-6, Rear Adm. Russell Dash, Brown, Peers, Rear Adm. Chad Jacoby.

April 23, 2024

Congratulations to our award-winning Deck Plate Developers

Four Coast Guard members recognized for developing apps that make work more efficient.

White rectangle shaped graphic with a border in two tone blue in a square shape around the permiter of the graphic. In the middle is a logo that looks like VC and it says "MHS Video Connect" in navy color.

Nov. 30, 2023

New Healthcare Video Connect allows you to meet with assigned healthcare provider via livestream

This new application facilitates improved access for patients with busy schedules, or routine care that does not require an in-person visit.

In January 2023, crews aboard an over-the-horizon boat from Maritime Safety and Security Team San Francisco evaluate a proposed boat crew communications system supporting the Research and Development Center, Defense Innovation Unit and C5I Service Center Team, who won the Commander Joel Magnussen Innovation Award for Management.

May 18, 2023

Congratulations to the 2022 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Award Winners

Recipients pioneered solutions that improve Coast Guard operations and service readiness – just like the legendary Coast Guard innovator whose “chain stopper” dramatically improved the safety of buoy tending operations and for whom these awards are named.

Petty Officer 1st Class Bradley Martin, a marine science technician, wears enhanced hearing protection while conducting an exam in a high-decibel environment on a ship in Boston in January 2022. The Coast Guard continues to evaluate these electronic earbuds as a safety measure, using seed funding and resources from the Science and Technology Innovation Center (STIC). (Coast Guard photo)

Feb. 28, 2023

Coast Guard tests high-tech hearing protection 

Marine inspectors testing electronic earbuds that block damaging noise, but let you communicate.

crewmembers harvesting hydroponic lettuce

March 14, 2022

Cutter Polar Star enjoys farm to galley produce, grown in the hangar

Experimental hydroponic garden on heavy icebreaker becomes new source of fresh vegetables at sea

Representing the winners in each category of the 2020 Capt. Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards are, from left, Auxiliarist Alvaro Ferrando, Cmdr. Joel Carse, Cmdr. Baxter Smoak, Douglas Campbell, Petty Officer 3rd Class Kristin Talbott and Petty Officer 1st Class James Lenkiewicz.

May 27, 2021

The Top Six Coast Guard Innovations of 2020

Great ideas from around the Coast Guard are recognized at the Thomsen Innovation Awards

DHS SBIR logo

April 8, 2021

Event: Small businesses pitch innovative tech ideas

The DHS Small Business Innovation Research Program fosters new processes, products and technologies that support DHS missions

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