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 ...

Austal USA was awarded a $273 million contract option by the U.S. Coast Guard to construct a second Stage 2 Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter, or OPC. The shipbuilding company said Wednesday 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, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Austal USA announced in a press release that the Coast Guard has exercised options on a $3 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter contract. Here is the post: Mobile, Ala. – The U.S.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Austal USA has a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to build a second Offshore Patrol Cutter. According to a release from Austal USA, the $273 million option is part of a ...

Contractor Austal USA has announced that the U.S. Coast Guard is set to receive new ships, specifically Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs). The contract covers $3.3 billion in funding for up... Here’s ...

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard is requesting $13.8 billion for fiscal year 2025. That's $100 million dollars less than this year. In the request, the Coast Guard is seeking $13 million less for the ...

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 ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – When the U.S. Coast Guard announced Eastern Shipbuilding Group would build the first of the new Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC), it was Bay County’s biggest economic news in ...

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, ...