Alaska U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R.-Alaska) and Representative Mary Peltola (D.-Alaska) today announced that they have successfully secured federal funding for the purchase of a commercially available Icebreaker by the U.S. Coast Guard. Though the legislators did not state the name of the icebreaker, the most frequently mentioned candidate vessel has been Edison Chouest Offshore’s M/V Aiviq. Back in May 2022, the Coast Guard issued an RFI seeking to identify commercial...