Michael Dickey

The Coast Guard might be housed in the Homeland Security Department, but operationally it similar to the armed services. It uses communication infrastructures provided by the Defense Department, notes Capt. Michael Dickey, the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Command, Control, Communications and IT service center.

People may complain about the volume of email they receive, but email remains a massively important medium of communication. Nearly five billion active email accounts exist, generating hundreds of billions of messages every day.

Before the Obama administration left office in December, it left a series of reports for the incoming Trump administration.