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Coast Guard Examining Requirements For SCIF On Offshore Patrol Cutter

Coast Guard Examining Requirements For SCIF On Offshore Patrol Cutter
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 is reviewing requirements to outfit its eventual fleet of new medium-endurance cutters with secure capabilities for collecting, processing and disseminating intelligence, a senior service official said on Tuesday. The cost to install a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) is about $25 million per Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), Vice Adm. Daniel Abel, deputy commandant for Operations, told a House panel in response to a question from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure…

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