Mobile, Ala. – Austal USA started construction on its second Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), Icarus (WMSM 920). Like Pickering (WMSM 919), Icarus is being built at the company’s Mobile, ...

The Coast Guard’s program of record (POR), which dates to 2004, calls for procuring 25 Heritage class OPCs to eventually replace the service’s array of geriatric medium-endurance cutters.

The service's most important shipbuilding program, the Heritage class Offshore Patrol Cutter, is years behind schedule and its cost has ballooned from $12.5 billion in 2012 to $17.6 billion by 2022.

While the Heritage -class cutter is, at heart, a fine multi-mission ship, piecemeal efforts to address the Coast Guard’s shifting operational priorities have wreaked havoc on what was, once, an ...

Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Coast Guard to build the second stage of its Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter program. If chosen, Bollinger would ...

The U.S. Coast Guard will launch the first of its Offshore Patrol Cutters next week, Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Linda Fagan said. The USCGC Argus is the first of a planned 25 Heritage-class ...

The 11 Heritage class cutters, designated as Stage 2 of the overall OPC program, follow the first four OPCs being built by Florida shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group.

The Coast Guard plans to build 25 of the Heritage Class offshore patrol cutters to replace older ships in its fleet, with an average cost of $411 million apiece, federal records show. The ships ...

Eastern Shipbuilding Group filed the GAO protest following the late June $208.26 million award to Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., to build the future Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutters.

The Heritage class cutters are larger than the current thirteen 1,800-ton Famous-class and fourteen 1,200-ton Reliance-class OPCs. These older OPCs have been in service 30 to 50 years each and all ...

The 11 Heritage class cutters being built by Austal USA, designated as Stage 2 of the overall OPC program, follow the first four OPCs being built by Florida shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group ...

During Thursday's State of the Coast Guard Address in Charleston,Adm. Karl Schultz outlined plans to homeport five National Security Cutters in the the city.