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Draft House Appropriations Bill Adds Start Up Funds For Second Icebreaker, 12th National Security Cutter

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Draft House Appropriations Bill Adds Start Up Funds For Second Icebreaker, 12th National Security Cutter
The fiscal year 2020 defense dill directs the establishment of at least one strategic port in the Arctic to help enable operations by Navy and Coast Guard ships, including the National Security Cutter. Shown here is the James, the fifth NSC, after interdicting a low profile vessel carrying cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Oct. 22, 2018. Photo: Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Murray

The Coast Guard’s acquisition account would remain wholesome under a draft bill released by a House spending panel, which proposes to add startup funding for a second heavy polar icebreaker and a 12th National Security Cutter (NSC) and would fund the service’s acquisition account at $2 billion, around $800 million more than requested but in line with what the Coast Guard says is the minimum it needs annually to sustain its modernization program. The Trump administration didn’t request any funding…

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