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GAO Raps Coast Guard’s Planning For New Heavy Polar Icebreaker

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GAO Raps Coast Guard’s Planning For New Heavy Polar Icebreaker
Coast Guard heavy polar icebreaker Polar Star (foreground) shown cutting a channel in the Ross Sea as part of Operation Deep Freeze 2017. Photo: Chief Petty Officer David Mosley

The Coast Guard’s plans to acquire and take delivery of a new heavy polar icebreaker by 2023 are “highly optimistic” and not based on realistic schedule targets, a government auditor said on Tuesday.The Coast Guard’s continued focus on short-term acquisition planning means it “has not established a sound acquisition business case” for the new icebreaker, Marie Mak, director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), told a House panel. “For shipbuilding programs to be successful,…

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