Encl (1) to COMDTINST 16010.8
Selected Program Standards/Customer Service Standards:
Monitor high threat areas sufficient to detect 40% of all vessels
engaged in or suspected of narcotics trafficking.
Intercept every known narcotics trafficker suspect aircraft and vessel
detected.
Respond to all known events in progress.
Causal Factors to be Addressed:
Smuggling via maritime routes is a convenient and efficient method of
transporting illegal drugs into the U.S.
Maritime borders are more difficult to control than ports of entry such
as airports and highway border crossings.
Illegal drugs can be disguised as or included with legitimate maritime
cargo.
Smuggling routes can easily be shifted between different maritime paths,
or between land and air alternatives.
The Caribbean maritime routes are overlapped by numerous national
jurisdictions which must coordinate strategies in order to develop an
effective deterrent.
Other agency counter drug efforts create changes in maritime smuggling
that must be counteracted.
Strategies to Achieve Targets:
Ongoing Strategies:
The Coast Guard has developed a 10 year Counterdrug Strategic Plan,
aligned with the National Drug Control Strategy, that sets long-range
goals, and performance targets. This strategic plan establishes the
framework for a collection of individual campaign plans that target the
maritime high threat areas. The Coast Guard has also developed a 5
year counterdrug budget forecast that supports the strategic plan, and
serves as the basis for our counterdrug performance goal.
Continue to maintain a presence in the maritime environment to deter
smugglers and reduce the flow of cocaine below the domestic demand level.
Deploy Coast Guard assets to source and transit zone nations for
engagement and training to enhance regional forces' ability to prevent
smuggling. Deployments will include UNITAS training and assistance
cutter deployments with the U.S. Navy to the Caribbean, South America,
and Central America; and training assistance to the Haitian Coast Guard
and Peruvian armed forces.
Use research and development to improve detection capability, including
identifying new technology to counter threats to CG detection and search
devices, resulting in better probability of detecting illegal smuggling.
New Strategies:
Improve tactical effectiveness by employing a new aircraft mounted
sensor system.
Establish a Caribbean International Support Tender to provide assistance
to and enhance the operational capability of Caribbean regional maritime
forces to better address smuggling.
Efficiency Strategies:
Update and rehabilitate assets to maintain current level of performance
with less resources because of increased efficiency.
Reallocate available assets to focus on areas of highest threat in
support of ONDCP's National Drug Control Strategy.
Continue the Coast Guard's Deepwater project to award up to three
contracts to develop an integrated system of surface, air, command and
control, intelligence, and logistics systems to provide the functional
capability to carry out the Coast Guard's statutory mandates in the
deepwater area of responsibility. Concurrent with this effort, the
Administration will begin a Presidential Roles and Missions review of
future Coast Guard missions. The Coast Guard will avoid one-for-one
replacement of its existing assets, and achieve efficiencies by
capitalizing on better technology.
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