
A bill agreed to by House and Senate negotiators to provide appropriations to the federal government for the rest of FY ’17 includes long-lead materials for the 10th Coast Guard National Security Cutter, two more than the original program of record and halfway toward an influential senator’s goal of funding 12 of the high-endurance vessels.The Omnibus spending package includes $95 million for the latest NSC, which is built by Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] in its Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard.The Coast Guard’s…