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House Defense Bill Wants DoD Study Of Arctic Port

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 12th, 2019

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House Defense Bill Wants DoD Study Of Arctic Port

The Coast Guard's Polar Star is the nation's only heavy polar icebreaker. In this Coast Guard photo the vessel is shown conducting ice breaking operations in Antarctica in Jan. 2017.

The House on Friday approved its version of a defense policy bill that like the Senate legislation would require the Defense Department to study and report to Congress the establishment of at least one strategic port in the Arctic but unlike the Senate its measure doesn’t direct the creation of such a port. The provision in the House’s fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) related to the Arctic port says the Secretary of Defense “may designate one or…

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