
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Thursday said he is authoring legislation aimed at further increasing cooperation in the Arctic region between the Coast Guard and Navy for sustained operations and also said that he and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) have formed a caucus in the Senate to support Coast Guard needs. The bill will “further advance collaboration between” the two services “to increase their effectiveness for carrying out sustained operations in the Arctic,” Sullivan, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science,…