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Last May, DHS approved production of the service's first polar security cutter to be built in nearly five decades.

The 418-foot-long national security cutter and its roughly 150 crew arrived in Juneau on Thursday morning. It’s homeported in Alameda, California. Petty Officer 1st Class Travis McGee said the ship is ...

A close-up of the tig weld that was placed during the Coast Guard Cutter Pickering (OPC 5) keel laying ceremony for the first Heritage-Class Offshore Patrol Cutter in Mobile, Alabama, Dec. 8, 2025. (U ...

Austal USA was awarded a contract with a potential value of $3.3 billion for the detail design and construction of up to 11 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) for the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is in the midst of negotiating a firm, fixed-price contract for its fourth National Security Cutter (NSC) as the last vestiges of Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS), the former ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has finished awarding contracts for 11 new Arctic Security Cutters, a move that will reshape America’s small but important icebreaker fleet. The decision, announced in ...