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The design, schedule and estimated costs of the Coast Guard’s top acquisition program, the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), are challenged, creating potential mission gaps and putting program deliveries and costs at risk, warns a new report by a government auditing agency. The Government Accountability Office report on the medium-endurance cutter program prompted a bipartisan concern from the House committee that oversees the Coast Guard’s authorities. “GAO concerns about the OPC design process and procurement, the initial capability of the winning…
