DomesticPreparedness met with Craig Coy, President and COO, Homeland Security Group, L-3 Communications Inc. The L-3 executive draws on his Coast Guard and Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) experience in discussing how his company is applying technology to create homeland-security solutions in the fields of transportation security and interoperable communications.
DomPrep has divided the 43 minute interview into 4 segments.
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Listen to Audio Segment One An Overview of L-3 Communications
L-3’s background in defense intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and secure communications. L-3’s three Homeland Security Group divisions: what they provide and the customers they serve.
Duration: 12 Minutes 03 Seconds
Listen to Audio Segment Two L-3’s Integrated Checkpoint
L-3’s incorporation of five detection and scanning technologies into a single transportation security solution.
Duration: 3 Minutes 55 Seconds
Listen to Audio Segment Three Interoperable Communications
Interoperable communications for first responders and the L-3 emphasis on linkages to the EOCs. The importance of local plans and input into statewide-communications plans that are layered and nested across states. How L-3 has used training and exercises to reveal interoperability gaps and implement solutions, as in the case of a recent Massachusetts Port Authority exercise.
Duration: 15 Minutes 30 Seconds
Listen to Audio Segment Four The Challenge of Ensuring Transportation Security
Applying lessons learned from airport security to seaports, mass transportation systems, and intermodal security. The case for a single federal agency, analogous to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with responsibility for seaports.
Duration: 11 Minutes 12 Seconds
Craig P. Coy, president of L-3’s Homeland Security Group, is a retired Coast Guard officer who in 1983 became the first officer from that service to be selected as a White House Fellow. While on active duty he served as director of the Commandant’s Strategic Planning Office and, later, as deputy director for counter terrorism at the National Security Council. After retiring from active duty he served as vice president and general manager for Lear Siegler Services Inc., as CEO and president of HR Logic Inc., and as CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority, where he oversaw Logan International Airport, the Port of Boston, the Tobin Bridge, and Hanscom Field (in Bedford).