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Polar Security Cutter - Deputy Commandant for Mission Support

The Coast Guard is recapitalizing its polar icebreaker fleet to ensure continued access to both polar regions and support the country's economic, ...

Polar Security Cutter program - Wikipedia

The Polar Security Cutter Program is a program to recapitalize the United States Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy ...

The Cost of the Coast Guard's Polar Security Cutter

The Coast Guard awarded a contract to VT Halter Marine to build the first of a class of new heavy polar icebreakers, called the Polar Security Cutter (PSC).

U.S. Polar Icebreaker Faces New Delays and Cost Overruns Report ...

The U.S. Polar Security Cutter program continues to face headwinds. Five years after signing a construction contract the vessel continues to ...

Coast Guard confirms plans to buy polar icebreaker, station it in ...

Coast Guard confirms plans to buy polar icebreaker, station it in Juneau · The Aiviq was built in 2012 to serve the oil industry, but after a ...

JUST IN: Coast Guard Reevaluating Polar Security Cutter Schedule

The service initiated the icebreaker program in 2016 — in partnership with the Navy — to design and procure three heavy polar icebreakers to ...

Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program

Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program. Congressional Research Service. Summary. Required number of polar icebreakers. A 2023 Coast Guard ...

Polar-class icebreaker - Wikipedia

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) are heavy icebreakers operated by the United States Coast Guard (USCG).

Report to Congress on Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter - USNI News

From the report · Required number of polar icebreakers. · Current operational polar icebreaker fleet. · Polar Security Cutter (PSC). · Commercially ...

CGC Polar Star - US Coast Guard Pacific Area

Homeported in Seattle, Washington, US Coast Guard Cutter POLAR STAR (WAGB 10) is the United States' only heavy icebreaker.

Report to Congress on Polar Security Cutter Program - USNI News

From the report · Required number of polar icebreakers. · Current operational polar icebreaker fleet. · Polar Security Cutter (PSC). · Commercially ...

Coast Guard Acquisitions: Polar Security Cutter Needs to Stabilize ...

The Coast Guard's only active heavy polar icebreaker, the aging Polar Star, primarily helps ensure U.S. access to Antarctica.

U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Faces Delays With No Funding ...

The U.S. Coast Guard did not request additional funding for the Polar Security Cutter icebreaker program in 2025, while it revises the ...

Polar Icebreaker - Seaspan

The Mission Canada's new Polar Icebreaker will be the Canadian Coast Guard's multi-role vessel and is designed with a high degree of operational flexibility.

Report: USCG's Polar Icebreaker Program is 60 Percent Over Budget

The cutter program has been beset with delays and cost overruns by the Coast Guard's admission. They first proposed replacing the Polar Star ( ...

Inside the Largest U.S. Icebreaker - YouTube

... Arctic partners such as Norway, Canada, Denmark, and Iceland. USCGC HEALY is one of two active polar icebreakers and is the Coast Guard's only ...

Product Details RL34391 - CRS Reports - Congress.gov

Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (RL34391) Version History

Coast Guard Poised To Buy Badly Needed Private Icebreaker

Coast Guard Poised To Buy Badly Needed Private Icebreaker. The Coast Guard is far from meeting ice-breaking mission demands in the strategic ...

Coast Guard to 'Cut Steel' on Long-Delayed Icebreaker, Acquire ...

The Coast Guard is finalizing designs for its new Polar Security Cutter and its contractor will be ready to begin construction on the icebreaker “this year,”

USCG on Polar Star and Polar Security Cutter Heavy Icebreakers

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has just one operational heavy icebreaker in service, the nearly 50-year-old Polar Star (WAGB 10) that deploys solely to ...