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MSI  has applied its combined maritime operations, planning, analysis, and training skills to projects supporting operational marine and transportation systems, including:

• Cutter Homeport Analysis Process - Designed, developed and implemented an enhanced process for making cutter homeport decisions.  Incorporates a graphical user interface to help Coast Guard Planners make critical homeport decisions that account for all relevant factors including environment, personnel, morale, operational effectiveness, and dollars.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard R&DC

• Coastal Ocean Dynamics Application Radar (CODAR) Short-Term Predictive Capability and Website - Mapping of the direction and velocity of wave currents from available CODAR data in Block Island Sound.  Involves the development, testing, demonstration, and documentation of a short-term predictive capability for surface currents based on the historical data collected and the real-time data streams from the CODAR sites for use in enhancing the Coast Guard Search and Rescue planning process.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard R&DC

• Navigation Safety Information System – Development of requirements for assess the user needs, wants, and requirements for a new CG navigation safety information prototype capable of exchanging navigation safety information effectively and efficiently with all users.   Work includes the development of demonstration scenarios and facilitated meetings with major users of Coast Guard Navigation Safety Information to fine tune user needs, wants, and requirements which will lead to input for a prototype design for Stage 3. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Waterway Information Network – Development of a concept test and demonstration prototype of the Waterway Information Network (WIN) as a network of distributed information providers and users based on the Internet.  Includes the implementation and maintenance of the Maritime Information Mark-up Language (MIML) Customer: U.S. Coast Guard
• Waterways Usage Profiles - Development of a consolidated collection of descriptive data characterizing waterways users and demands for Coast Guard services in the coastal zone. Data collected from multiple sources, internal and external to the Coast Guard, and accessible for geographic presentation and incorporation into mission analysis models. Latest data collection efforts include an interactive world wide web mariner questionnaire.   Customer: U.S. Coast Guard
• Ship and Aircraft Coating Systems - Identified, quantified, and analyzed processes, equipment, and materials used for surface preparation and application of coating systems on various U.S. Coast Guard cutters and aircraft.   Populated database with relevant data to support future decisions for proposed changes to materials and coating techniques.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard