
The Coast Guard on Monday said it awarded shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $497 million contract for production of the seventh Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC), leaving just one ship left to be funded and built in the service’s line of new high-endurance cutters. The cutter Kimball (WMSL 756), which will be built at HII’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., is slated to begin construction in January 2015 with delivery set for 2018. The construction contract follows award last June…