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Request for Proposal for Up to Three Icebreakers
USCGC Polar Star will be 47 years old by the time we see a replacement. USCGC photo. The Navy has issued a Request for Proposal with options for up to three heavy polar icebreakers. Its not a block...
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Navy Awards FFG Conceptual Design Contracts for FFG(X)–Speculation on a NSC...
The US Naval Institute has the best report I have seen on the recent award of five contracts to five different vendors for development of conceptual designs for the projected FFG (X). I’ll look at the...
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RFP for Heavy Polar Icebreaker Issued
USCGC Polar Sea The Request for Proposal for detailed design and construction of new Heavy Polar Icebreaker(s) (HPIB) has been issued. You can see it here. I have only taken a quick look at the first...
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How the SPa was Chosen – The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard’s DAMEN Spa 5009...
Procurement included 4x Stan Patrol 5009 Coastal Patrol Vessels (middle); 2x Fast Crew Supply 5009 Utility Vessels (top) ; 6x Interceptor DI 1102 Interceptors (bottom). Picture: DAMEN The following is...
View ArticleVideo: Review of Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for the Coast Guard and...
Note the video does not really start until approximately time (17m08s). This is going to be a hodgepodge, but it is all about the 2019 budget. There is a video above. There will be my own observations...
View ArticleFincantieri Builds Medium Icebreaker for Norway
MarineLog brings us some details of the new Norwegian Icebreaker/Research vessel Kronprins Haakon which has been moved from Fincantieri’s Integrated shipyard of Riva Trigoso and Muggiano, Italy, where...
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GAO Document Alert: Coast Guard Acquisitions: Status of Coast Guard’s Heavy...
The GAO has issued a report on the progress of the Coast Guard and Navy’s joint efforts to procure new Heavy Polar Icebreakers. The format seems to be a little different. This is a pdf, but instead of...
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Perspective: Rejuvenating the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, by Sanjay...
Once again Sanjay Badri-Maharaj provides a look inside the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, (TTCG). This time, he relates its often frustrating history and its recent attempts to return to relevancy....
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“Build a Great White Fleet For the 21st Century”–USNI Proceedings
The US Naval Institute Proceedings May 2018 edition has an article, “Build a Great White Fleet for the 21st Century,” that recommends greater Coast Guard funding to support Combatant Commanders. It is...
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Report to Congress on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Procurement, 23 May 2018
OPC “Placemat” Mr. O’Rourke has been busy, in addition to the report on Icebreakers, the latest edition of the Congressional Research Service report on Coast Guard Cutter Procurement, also by Ronald...
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Navy Will Release New 30-Year Ship Repair, Modernization Plan with Annual...
The Navy has announced that they will release not only a 30 year shipbuilding plan, but also a 30 year ship repair and modernization plan. He acknowledged that the timing of ship maintenance...
View ArticleChinese Nuclear Icebreaker Planned
China Defense Blog reports that China is has begun the process to design and build a nuclear powered icebreaker, as a prelude to building a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The post includes a...
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“ESG Conducts OPC Final Critical Design Review for the USCG”–NavyRecognition
Rendering of Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter. Eastern Shipbuilding Image NavyRecognitions reports that, “Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has successfully conducted its Final Critical Design Review...
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Bollinger Wants to Build CG Icebreakers in Tampa
MarineLink provides what is almost certainly a quote of press release from Bollinger stating they hope to build the three heavy and three medium icebreakers the Coast Guard has been saying it needs in...
View ArticleHull Vane Experiment on 52 Meter OPV
“This project video shows the process from design to sea trials of a Hull Vane retrofit on the 52 m Offshore Patrol Vessel Thémis from the French Affaires Maritimes. The installation was done by CMN...
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Report to Congress on U.S. Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program, July 9, 2018
USCGC Polar Star. An old USCG photo, note the HH-52. The Congressional Research Service has issued a new edition of its Report to Congress on U.S Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program by specialist in...
View ArticleA Conversation with Admiral Karl Schultz, Commandant of the U.S. Coast...
CSIS and the United States Naval Institute (USNI) conduct an interview with Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the 26th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, conducted 1 August, 2018. Below I will...
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New OPVs for France, Trinidad and Tobago, the Philippines, and India
Four new Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) projects, totaling 20 vessels, have been reported. NavyRecognition reports the French Navy has issued a Request for Information preparatory to procurement of six...
View ArticleUpdate on Coast Guard Acquisition Programs and Mission Balance and...
This is not going to flow well, I apologized for the mishmash. The video above is of a House Sub-Committee hearing that occurred on July 24. I think it is still worth a look. The video does not...
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Contract awarded for FRC #45-50
The primary thrust of the Acquisitions Directorate post is on what Webber class WPCs are doing in response to recent hurricanes, but it also mentions that a contract option for six more has been...
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