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Coast Guard Award For Third OPC Expected This Week; Challenges Mount With MH-65 Fleet

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

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Coast Guard Award For Third OPC Expected This Week; Challenges Mount With MH-65 Fleet

Notional OPC design is 360-feet long, a 54-foot beam, and 17-foot draft. House appropriators propose to fully fund the program in FY '22. (Graphic: Eastern Shipbuilding Group.)

The Coast Guard this week expects to award Eastern Shipbuilding Group a contract to begin production of the third Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and long-lead time materials for the fourth vessel, and construction of the first ship remains on track for delivery in late 2022, Adm. Karl Schultz, the service’s commandant, told a congressional panel on Wednesday. Construction of the first OPC, the Argus, is more than 40 percent complete and work on the second ship, the Chase, is in…

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