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Committee hears updates on offshore patrol cutter delays and polar security cutter construction
Summary
Members and the acting commandant discussed delays to the offshore patrol cutter (OPC) program, progress on polar security cutters, and an RFI that included foreign yards; the Coast Guard said the first OPC delivery is in doubt and that U.S. shipyards remain central to production.
Subcommittee members pressed Admiral Kevin Lundy for specifics on shipbuilding programs after testimony and field visits to Gulf Coast shipyards.
Admiral Lundy told the panel that construction of the polar security cutter series is underway at U.S. yards: “So they are cutting steel. They are building that first polar security cutter, sir.” He said work at Bollinger in Mississippi and at Austal in Alabama showed American shipbuilders “hard at work” on heavy icebreakers and offshore patrol cutters.
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