
Coast Guard and Navy officials told a House panel on Tuesday that their two services are considering creating a joint program office related to the acquisition of a heavy icebreaker for polar missions.The services are committed to working together on “a memorandum of understanding on how we would work together collaboratively on an icebreaker,” Allison Stiller, the principal civilian deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, told the House Transportation Coast Guard Subcommittee. She…