
As with fellow competitor Bollinger Shipyards, Eastern Shipbuilding Group and General Dynamics [GD] both include foreign shipbuilders in their respective designs for the first design phase of the United States Coast Guard’s potential $10 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipbuilding unit on Friday said its OPC design is based on a variant of Spain's Navantia S.A.’s Buque de Accion Maritima (BAM) offshore patrol vessels built for the Spanish Navy. GD said the BAM is…