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Design Nearly Complete On Polar Security Cutter, Full Rate Production Still Ahead

Design Nearly Complete On Polar Security Cutter, Full Rate Production Still Ahead
Computer rendering of Coast Guard's proposed polar security cutter. (Image: Coast Guard)

Bollinger Shipyards has completed more than 90 percent of the design of the Coast Guard’s first heavy polar icebreaker in 50 years and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will decide in the coming months whether to initiate full-rate production of the ship, a senior Coast Guard official said on Wednesday. The Coast Guard in December said that DHS did approve the construction start of the Polar Security Cutter (PSC), caveating at the time that the decision by the Acquisition…

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