Coast Guard Launch Pilot Program to Monitor Florida Coastline

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ANALYSIS: The Hawkeye program is yet another effort undertaken by the Coast
Guard to meet the additional responsibilities presented by its new homeland
security mission. It has already proven to be invaluable, especially for
achieving better monitoring conditions for its vast areas of responsibility
along the nation's coastline and waterways. South Florida is a particularly
active zone that has proven to be quite difficult to monitor due to the
constant barrage of immigrants and drug trafficking. Prior to this program,
authorities primarily relied of witness accounts and radio transmissions to
locate potentially illegal vessels heading toward the coast. DHS and the
Coast Guard will evaluate the results of the pilot and plan to implement
similar programs at ports across the country



Source: Intellibridge 6.4.2004