MACC Nuggets Highlights from the 2021 Multi-Agency Craft Conference. By Ken Hocke, Senior Editor
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his year’s Multi-Agency Craft Conference (MACC) at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore again concentrated on new technologies and product offerings and provided the latest information on military boats. The July conference, organized and produced by the American Society of Naval Engineers, featured Army and Navy service craft, Navy and Coast Guard patrol boats, Navy and Marine Corps expeditionary craft, and Naval Special Warfare craft, with vendors providing in-water demonstrations of the vessels. “We can’t do what we do without the people who build the boats,” Marie Ebers Arthur, principal assistant program manager, PMS325G Boats and Combat Craft, Naval Sea Systems, said during an overview of NavSea’s PMS325G Boat Program. The Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard all have fleets of boats. The construction and maintenance of these boats is more vital today than ever before because of the way wars and peacetime interactions are now handled. And workboat boatyards that build these boats are more important MACC featured a good mix of commercial and military personnel. today than in the past. PMS325G The Navy’s Boats and Combatant Craft Division (PMS325G) is primarily responsible for managing the acquisition, design, production, test, and delivery of boats and combatant craft to the Navy and other U.S. Armed
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Forces. The division also supports these vessels with life cycle management and sustainment engineering. PMS325G delivers products to endusers so they can accomplish operational tasks such as High Value Unit (HVU) Escort; Maritime Expedition-
ary Security; Mine Countermeasures (MCM); Force Protection/Harbor Security; Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS); Ship & Submarine Repair/Maintenance; and personnel and cargo transport. The division formed an Industry
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