Vice Adm. Peter Gautier said the Coast Guard would ideally need a $6 billion annual boost in order to accomplish all of its maintenance and modernization needs.
By Justin KatzFlight of the Gray Eagle: How a proven platform evolves
The possibilities are endless with the next generation of Gray Eagle, making it easy to envision more missions and capabilities on the horizon.
“One of the things that we did early in my tenure was we changed (it to) Polar Security Cutter as we were trying to get the funds from the Congress, from our own department, the administration,” Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz told Breaking Defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The shipyard building the Coast Guard’s biggest program, the $10 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter program, has been leveled by Hurricane Michael.
By Paul McLeary
WASHINGTON: The Commandant of the Coast Guard is “very confident” US shipyards can build the country’s first icebreaker in 20 years for less than the standard eye-watering $1 billion estimate. Adm. Paul Zukunft dismissed the idea of cutting costs by buying abroad, a toxic concept for Congress. And he publicly pondered a National Academy of Sciences proposal to…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
WASHINGTON: “What is modern warfare going to look like in the 21st century?” asked Adm. Paul Zukunft. “Not that long ago,” he said, workers aboard a mobile offshore drilling unit unwittingly downloaded malware that scrambled the system that kept the floating platform stable. “They drifted off the well site,” the Coast Guard commandant said…
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