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Coast Guard Awards Heavy Polar Icebreaker Design Study Contracts To Five Companies

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Coast Guard Awards Heavy Polar Icebreaker Design Study Contracts To Five Companies
Coast Guard heavy polar icebreaker Polar Star (foreground) shown cutting a channel in the Ross Sea as part of Operation Deep Freeze 2017. Photo: Chief Petty Officer David Mosley

The Coast Guard on Wednesday evening said it awarded a combined $20 million to five companies for one-year design studies and analyses of a new heavy polar icebreaker with the goal of finding ways to reduce program costs and schedule timelines.Bollinger Shipyards, Fincantieri Marine Group, which is the U.S.-based shipbuilding division of Italy’s Fincantieri, the NASSCO shipbuilding division of General Dynamics [GD], Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], and VT Halter Marine, which is the U.S.-based shipbuilding division of Singapore’s ST Engineering,…

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