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We call it the fast and the faster . So
the family assessment support tool and
the family assessment support tool
report . It's basically it's an
interface that we give the watch and
what they end up doing is following a
storm or a major contingency . What
allows us to do is do uh push service
versus pool service , meaning instead
of us sitting back and waiting for
people to call for help , we actually
reach out to everybody that we know is
affected and ask them if they need any
help with their entitlements , medical ,
uh you know , financial assistance and
just give them an overall , you know ,
care call . I think it's huge because
just instead of getting an automated
email or a text message and replying
yes , I'm safe or yes , I'm displaced .
You actually have a live person on the
phone asking if you're feeling okay ,
they can hear the tone of your voice
and they can also explain your
entitlements . Um you can get underway
as a cover man and you know that your
family is gonna be contacted with
somebody to assist them . Okay .
The Coast Guard's new mentoring program
is the first app enabled , software
based mentoring program that offers a
whole host of options for members
looking to engage in different types of
mentoring . The platform , leverages
artificial intelligence and matching
algorithms to help members connect with
the best possible options um that have
achieved their goals that they'd like
to achieve or maybe attended schools
that they'd like to attend and really
just helped them personally
professionally grow . It's the mentors
mentees , active duty reservists ,
civilians . Uh , it's our entire
workforce fully inclusive where anyone
can connect with anyone else in the
organization in the palm of their hand .
Our mission is to monitor the iceberg
danger in the north atlantic ocean and
provide relevant iceberg warning
products . In order to do that , we
have to be able to find icebergs to the
labrador coast of Canada and the Grand
Banks of Newfoundland , which is where
the , so the transatlantic shipping
community is . Opera , we do that with
aircraft and we are in the process of
transitioning from using aircraft to
find icebergs . So using satellite to
find icebergs , it allows us to quickly
have a computer do that that the
analysts can go in and get them more
pertinent details for it . Then that
iceberg goes into a model that where we
predict the drift of the iceberg and
then draw a warning limit around it
that gets sent out to Mariners at sea
every single day
verifying private aid to navigation is
an essential part of water waste
management . In fact , it was covid
that highlighted how critical it had
become an active duty had to do both
the federal AIDS and the private aids .
And it became absolutely overwhelming .
So we took a look at how could we
further automate and make ourselves
more efficient in supporting active
duty and Clint O'Connor , the recipient
of the award . E uh , basically took
piles of paper and some older mainframe
systems and , you know , kind of in a
weekend , developed it on an ipad ,
which , you know , very significantly
increases our efficiency .
So the need for the lighting system on
board , the 47 ft motor lifeboat was to
support , a a gap in the ability to see
at night . I think small boat has
an allotment of flares on board to
illuminate during nighttime operations .
Ultimately , you're limited to how many
players you have on board with this new
lighting system . You're able to see
what's in front of you and behind you
and rough weather conditions and that
should help mitigate some risk for the
crews on board and should also help aid
in finding Mariners in distress .
The importance of the cruise ship
scorecard is , we're providing a
measurement to the amount of
noncompliance that has found aboard a
ship during the inspection . When our
crews conduct a cruise ship examination ,
they are divided up into teams that
follow a prescribed process during the
examination . Sometimes they're going
to identify deficiencies , things that
are not as they're supposed to be on
the ship . When those are identified ,
they're linked to a particular line
within the cruise ship scorecard and
that provides a , that provides a
measurement of the amount of
noncompliance found
the project came about when uh , so in
command centers , Coast Guard command
centers , uh , there's a , there's a
lot of times where communication with
Mariners , the Mariners aren't able to
communicate via cell phone or over the
radio because they're busy doing all
kinds of uh , you know , maybe stuff
maybe they're in trouble or just don't
have the cell phone reception to make
the phone call and don't have a radio
on board , but they can receive texts .
And so right now , currently the Coast
Guard , we don't have a way to text
with them within the command centers .
And so this project kind of started out
as a way to see if there was a way to
do that , to communicate with Mariners
and has kind of grown from there .
Let's continue to to celebrate our
people celebrate innovation , create
the environment that allows the kind of
creative thinking and new way of
getting things done that the very best
of our workforce brings to us and
brings forward .