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Homeland Security

Long-Lead Funding In FY ’20 For Second Polar Security Cutter Would Help With Planning, Shipbuilder Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

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Long-Lead Funding In FY ’20 For Second Polar Security Cutter Would Help With Planning, Shipbuilder Says

Artist rendering of the Polar Security Cutter. Image by Halter Marine and Technology Associates.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Obtaining some funding in fiscal year 2020 to purchase long-lead materials for the Coast Guard’s second heavy polar icebreaker would help with production planning and provide savings in the program through bulk purchases, the top executive for the shipbuilder of the new Polar Security Cutter said on Wednesday. Funding to build the second Polar Security Cutter (PSC) hopefully will come in FY ’21 to maintain production efficiencies, Ronald Baczkowski, president and CEO of VT Halter Marine, told Defense…

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