The Coast Guard continues to need better management over its troubled $20 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program, which is years behind schedule, well over budget, has no ships delivered, and re ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Eastern Shipbuilding Group announced on Friday that it is suspending work on its Offshore Patrol Cutter program. CEO Joey D’Isernia said the program suspension is due ...

Here is a portion of the release. Mobile, Ala. – Austal USA started construction on its second Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), Icarus (WMSM 920). Like Pickering (WMSM 919), Icarus is ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Sparks flew and cheers erupted as the first cut of steel began construction of the newest offshore patrol cutter at Austal USA. It was the first of many steel cuttings to come.

Austal USA was awarded a contract with a potential value of $3.3 billion for the detail design and construction of up to 11 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) for the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Austal USA has started work on another United States Coast Guard cutter. According to an Austal USA news release, work just started on the Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter, ...

Austal USA hosted a keel laying ceremony today for the first U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at the company’s Mobile, Ala. ship manufacturing facility.

Shore infrastructure backlogs are hampering other US Coast Guard acquisitions such as the Offshore Patrol Cutter (shown here in a rendering), the Government Accountability Office told Congress. (US ...

As the U.S Coast Guard’s oldest mid-endurance cutters enter their sixth decade afloat, the veteran ships are still breaking new ground, demonstrating that even the simplest fleet of patrol craft, when ...

Austal USA held a ceremony marking the official start of construction on the first U.S. Coast Guard Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at its Mobile, Ala., shipyard. The vessel, ...

The Coast Guard authenticated the keel for the future Coast Guard Cutter Pickering during a ceremony Monday in Mobile, Alabama. Keel authentication is a time-honored shipbuilding tradition marking the ...