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The Chinese Coast Guard to Build World’s Largest Offshore Patrol Vessel–and More
This is a post I prepared for CIMSEC. It reiterates material we’ve already discussed, but also adds some additional thoughts. Japanese Coast Guard Cutter Shikishima, this class of two are currently the...
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Preliminary and Contract Design Contract Winners for OPC Announced
The Acquisitions Directorate has announced the three winners of contracts to develop preliminary and design contracts for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) intended to replace all existing medium...
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Bath Iron Works Offshore Patrol Cutter Concept
Our Friend at Navy Recognition was good enough to provide a copy of an artist’s concept of the BIW proposal he had found. We talked about the other two contenders for the OPC contract here. The...
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Multi-Year Contract for the Offshore Patrol Cutter?
FierceHomelandSecurity is reporting a bill, H.R. 4005, out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (the Coast Guard’s traditional authorizers) that would set authorization levels for...
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OPC Multi-Year Procurement-a Clarification
I have been made aware that the earlier post on this topic might lead to some confusion. Lets look at it in more detail. This is what the bill actually says about this, “SEC. 215. MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT...
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Progress on Canada’s Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship
MarineLog is reporting a new contract has been awarded for Canada’s Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS). FEBRUARY 21, 2014 — OSI Maritime Systems Ltd. (OSI), Burnaby, BC, has been selected by Lockheed...
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Could This be Bollinger’s OPC Candidate?
Navy Recognition is showing a photo of a model of a new corvette being built by Bollinger’s partner Damen for the Vietnamese Navy. The ships is the right size, 98 meters long and 14 meters of beam (321...
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FY2015 Budget Request Published
The Administrations FY2015 Budget Request for DHS is out. You can find it here: http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY15-BIB.pdf The Coast Guard’s portion (12 pages) begins on page 75...
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Navy Department Budget, a Comparison
Here is an overview of the Navy Department’s FY2015 budget request: http://www.finance.hq.navy.mil/FMB/15pres/DON_PB15_Press_Brief.pdf A much shorter summary of the Coast Guard’s FY2015 budget...
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Decommissioning the 110s
Photo: USAF photo, USCGC MUSTANG (WPB 1310), underway at Port Valdez, Alaska, while providing harbor security during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002. The Coast Guard recently commissioned its eighth...
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Changes in the Fleet
Defense Industry Daily has an update on the status of the National Security Cutter (NSC) program. The seventh (Kimball) has been ordered and they report how the previously ordered cutters are...
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Unfunded Piority List
The US Naval Institute has published an online copy of the DOD’s unfunded priority list. The Navy’s list runs pages 9-13 of the 49 page document reproduced there. Which got me to thinking, where is the...
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Three Nations Share German OPV Design
Photos: Chilean Navy photos of OPV Toro, 2012, note 40mm forward We have a guest post today, Andres Tavolari, a 1st Lt in the Chilean Marine Corp Reserve talks about the recent christening of the...
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Eastern’s OPC Concept Model
Our friend at NavyRecognition has sent some photos of a model of the Eastern Offshore Patrol Cutter taken at Sea-Air-Space 2014. They have daily coverage of the event you can access here:...
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OPC and the LCS Replacement (SSC), Sister Ships?
I am not the only one seeing a possible opportunity for commonality between the Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and the Navy’s projected Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) replacement. Here is a...
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Russia Builds an OPC
NavyRecognition is reporting the launch of the first for a class of ships being built for the Maritime Border Guards of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB, successor of the...
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CG issues Draft RFP for Second Phase of FRC Procurement
The Acquisition Directorate is reporting that they have issued a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new contract to build Webber class WPCs. It will provide for options of either four or six...
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“We Need More Coast Guard” says 7th Fleet
NationalDefenseMagazine.org has a piece that reports the Seventh Fleet advocating for the Coast Guard. There is an apparent error in that Capt. David Adams is identified as “Commander of the Navy’s...
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Let’s Give the OPC a Class Name–USCGC Newcomb (WMSM-915)
The procurement process for the Offshore Patrol Cutters is well underway. Three conceptual designs have been selected for further development. Challenges to the selection process have been rejected....
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More Info on the Eastern OPC Proposal
All photos credit Navy Recognition Recently found a brochure for Eastern’s OPC reportedly from last year’s Sea, Air, Space Conference. Credit FCNoVA from this discussion group. We have discussed this...
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