Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

Abstract

The Coast Guards acquisition program of record (POR) calls for procuring 8 National Security Cutters (NSCs), 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 58 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 aging Coast Guard cutters and patrol craft. The Coast Guards proposed FY2017 budget requests a total of $467 million in acquisition funding for the NSC, OPC, and FRC programs. NSCs are the Coast Guards largest and most capable general-purpose cutters. They have an estimated average procurement cost of about $684 million per ship. The first five are now in service. The sixth, seventh, and eighth are under construction and scheduled for delivery in 2016, 2018, and 2019, respectively. A ninth ship in the class, which was not requested by the Coast Guard, was funded by Congress in FY2016. The Coast Guards proposed FY2017 budget requests $127 million in acquisition funding for the NSC program for post-delivery activities on NSCs 4 through 8, program close-out, follow-on test and evaluation, program support, and procurement of small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs) for NSCs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 04, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011690

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Congressional Research Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boats
  • Business Administration
  • Coast Guard
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Homeland Security
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Transportation
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Readers

  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy