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. (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, ...

The Pentagon and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) finalized a contract Monday to transfer American aircraft and patrol vessels to the archipelagic nation. The contract includes the transfer of three ...

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-based shipbuilder Austal USA and the U.S. Coast Guard came together Monday to celebrate work on a ship that represents a critical future for both parties – if they can overcome problems so ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Coast Guard Cutter Forward (WMEC 911) returned to their home port in Portsmouth Monday after a 79-day patrol to conduct counter-drug operations. While in patrol, the ...

The Coast Guard’s newest polar icebreaker arrived Friday in Seattle after 112 days at sea on its first patrol. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis, commissioned in August, left Pascagoula, Miss., on ...

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 ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk returned to Key West, Fla., on Friday after a 75-day deployment to the Coast Guard Southeast District area of responsibility, targeting illegal drug trafficking and ...