The 420' medium icebreaker Healy, built in 1997, is one of two remaining ice cutters in the Coast Guard's Arctic force. Coast ...

The United States Coast Guard and Navy Integrated Program Office have received approval to begin building the first Polar Security Cutter. The Polar Security Cutter is the first heavy polar ...

The US Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (PSC) programme has been revitalised by the award of a US$951 million contract modification to Bollinger Shipyards in Mississippi for the detail, design and ...

Artist’s Rendering of Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter A Mississippi shipyard has been awarded a $951.6 million contract to adjust for cost increases for the first Polar Security Cutter, USNI ...

Bollinger Shipyards has secured a fixed-price-incentive-firm target contract modification valued at $951.6 million from the U.S. Coast Guard in support of the Polar Security Cutter, or PSC, program.

Bollinger Shipyards announces a $951.6 million Fixed-Price-Incentive-Firm Target contract modification from the U.S. Coast Guard to advance the detail design and construction phase of the Polar ...

Completion of the Polar Security Cutter is anticipated by May 2030. The ship will be 460 feet long and named the USCGC Polar Sentinel, according to WorkBoat. It’s been a long journey to build ...

Work on the cutter began in August 2023 ... Subsequent ships are estimated at $1.6 billion. The Polar Security Program aims to build at least three heavy icebreakers to safeguard U.S. interests ...

The US Coast Guard is relying on ageing icebreakers such as Healy, pictured here operating in the Gulf of Alaska, until it can build a new fleet of Polar Security Cutters. (Janes/Michael Fabey ...