A contract for the first new Coast Guard icebreaker in two decades will be awarded this spring, with $675 million now committed by Congress to fully fund construction and buy long-lead time materials for a second polar ship, said Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz.
Giving his first annual ‘state of the Coast Guard’ address in Los Angeles, Schultz cited the recently completed Antarctica deployment of the Polar Star – the nation’s sole heavy icebreaker – as evidence of the dire need for a...
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