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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – When the U.S. Coast Guard announced Eastern Shipbuilding Group would build the first of the new Offshore ...

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 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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has plans to build 25 Heritage Class Offshore Patrol Cutters, including four now slated to be homeported at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Coast Guard has spent close to $7.7 billion of the nearly $25 billion awarded to it by the Trump administration in July, ...