Lockport, Louisiana-based Bollinger Shipyards has secured a U.S. Coast Guard contract option worth approximately $507 million for 10 additional fast response cutters, or FRCs, and associated contract ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it has moved to accelerate the acquisition of 10 more Fast Response Cutters using money from the record $25 billion one-time funding it received in the 2025 ...

Crew members from Coast Guard Cutter Florence Finch (WPC 1157) stand at attention during the commissioning for the cutter held in Seattle, Oct. 24, 2024. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Steve ...

The Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124) patrols off Hilo, Hawaii, on Aug. 15, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West) Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC ...

The first of three new fast response U.S. Coast Guard cutters set to be based in Kodiak arrived on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Coast Guard Lt. Jake Daubert told the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly ...

Attendees bow their heads during the convocation for the April 3, 2025 commissioning of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter John Witherspoon, held in an Air Station Kodiak hangar. The first of three new U.S.

The United States Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class fast response cutters (FRCs) have emerged as a significant force for international deployments, dwarfing the legacy Island-class patrol boats in size, ...

Coast Guard plans call for procuring a combination of National Security Cutters (NSCs), Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs) and Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 earlier-generation Coast ...

The United States and its ally Japan recently boosted their maritime law enforcement fleets as China continued expanding its naval and coast guard presence in the Pacific. Newsweek has reached out to ...