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Article: Port security will improve, but gradually: Coast Guard officials say that the nation's waterways always will be vulnerable.
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- National Defense
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- July 1, 2002
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The Coast Guard will be spending at least the next three years making up for lost time in its effort to safeguard ports and waterways, officials said. A major challenge is figuring out how to make the best use of new funding, considering that the agency, in recent years, only spent 5 percent of its budget on security.
The task ahead is as overwhelming as eating an elephant one bite at a time, said Capt. Robert Ross, the head of the Coast Guard's Strategic Analysis office. "We are trying to carve this elephant up in slices that we can swallow without choking," he told National Defense.
The Coast Guard is under significant pressure to build up its ...