Production begins for the Coast Guard’s fifth offshore patrol cutter PRINT | E-MAIL Aug. 30, 2024 — A plasma cutter at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala. cuts steel plate be used in the production of the Coast Guard’s fifth offshore patrol cutter, Pickering. Photo: Austal USA.
By Cal Biesecker |
@calvinb21
4 hours ago |
08/30/2024
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Austal USA last Thursday said it has begun construction of the Coast Guard’s fifth offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future Coast Guard Cutter Pickering, under a potential $3.3 billion contract the company won in June 2022 for the second stage of the program.

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