US Coast Guard secures approval to build country’s first polar security cutter

The US Coast Guard/US Navy Integrated Program Office has received approval for the construction of the nation’s first polar security cutter (PSC). 

The PSC is the first heavy polar icebreaker constructed in the United States in more than five decades. The work will be performed by Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the prime contractor for the design and construction of the future PSC fleet.

This decision continues work that...