
Stable Funding Needed. Outgoing Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp says that overall the Coast Guard’s acquisition house is in strong shape with just one key ingredient that needs constant attention, “stable funding.” Papp tells a House Appropriations Homeland Security panel that it took at least 10 years of “hard work” for the Coast Guard to become the first military service to achieve a clean financial audit, which occurred in 2013. “We have our financial act in order,” he says.…