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Coast Guard highlights polar security cutter production and inland cutter recapitalization
Summary
Witnesses told the subcommittee the polar security cutter is the service’s top surface acquisition priority and that initial production has moved forward; the Coast Guard also discussed the waterways commerce cutter program to replace aging inland tenders.
The Coast Guard told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that the polar security cutter program is its top surface acquisition priority and that industry work has advanced to production readiness for the first hull.
Admiral Lundy said the selected shipbuilder had reached more than 95% two‑dimensional and functional design maturity and had begun constructing pre‑fabrication assembly units for the first polar security cutter. He called the vessels “complex” and said they will provide capabilities to…
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