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Already stretched thin by a long list of responsibilities, the Coast Guard faces more challenges and expanding missions over the next decade due to climate change, new technologies, and global strategic competition particularly, according to a new government study. Conducted at the request of Congress and authored by the National Academy of Sciences, the report identified 10 "specific and foreseeable developments" that will challenge the Coast Guard and identified 34 actions that the agency could take in response. Challenges cited include development of autonomous marine systems, cybersecurity risks, commercial space flight operations, offshore wind energy, aquaculture, activities in the Arctic, decarbonization of the shipping industry, maritime disasters, and migration. "Some of these developments present challenges already facing the Coast Guard but which will only grow in significance in coming years," Cary Coglianese, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of the study told a recent congressional hearing. "Others represent new challenges that are only starting to become discernible." |