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House Committee Highlights Capability Gaps With Coast Guard’s Medium Endurance Cutters

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

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House Committee Highlights Capability Gaps With Coast Guard’s Medium Endurance Cutters

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

The Coast Guard faces a growing capability gap between the times its current fleet of medium-endurance cutters retires and when its fleet of new Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) finishes coming on line, according to a House panel that oversees policy authorities for the service.“The ongoing recapitalization of the Service’s cutters was planned two decades ago to address mission demands at that time,” the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on the Coast Guard says in a July 19 subject matter summary ahead…

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