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Eliminating Polar Security Cutter Funds In FY ’19 Will Delay Program, Coast Guard Official Warns

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 11th, 2018

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Eliminating Polar Security Cutter Funds In FY ’19 Will Delay Program, Coast Guard Official Warns

Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star. The cutter was built by the former Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company and was commissioned in 1977. (Photo: Coast Guard)

If House appropriators prevail in their markup over the summer to zero funding to construct the first new heavy polar icebreaker in 40 years, the program will be delayed and also call into question the nation’s commitment to recapitalizing its icebreaker fleet, the Coast Guard’s top acquisition official said on Thursday.Existing funding for the Polar Security Cutter (PSC), the name given to the Coast Guard’s planned new heavy icebreaker fleet, will enable award of a detail design contract but not…

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