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Coast Guard Awards Eight OPC Study Contracts

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

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Coast Guard Awards Eight OPC Study Contracts

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 last Friday awarded contracts to eight shipbuilders for design studies for the follow-on detailed design and construction of the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program, which the service reopened to competition last year after deciding to terminate the contract with the existing shipbuilder after up to four vessels are built. The nine awardees include Austal USA, Bollinger Shipyards, General Dynamics’ [GD] Bath Iron Works, Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG), which is the current OPC shipbuilder, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Huntington…

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