Office of Scholarship, Research, and Innovation (OSRI)

Our world is becoming ever more complex and unpredictable, and it is changing at an ever-increasing rate. These realities mean that the demand for the U.S. Coast Guard has never been higher, and it is the mission of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to educate, develop, train, and inspire the next generation of U.S. Coast Guard leaders. Research and scholarship have become widely recognized as crucial elements to an undergraduate education and the development of critical thinking skills. These skills are fundamental to the development of leaders who will face the unknown and unexpected and who will find answers to the Coast Guard’s greatest challenges that are yet to be discovered. The Academy is also the only degree-granting institution of higher education in the Department of Homeland Security and is therefore a critical source of intellectual and scholarly service to the U.S. Coast Guard and the nation. Our faculty, students, and staff have long stepped up to this call.