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Coast Guard Still Planning On Spring Award For OPC Phase 2 Contract

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

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Coast Guard Still Planning On Spring Award For OPC Phase 2 Contract

Notional OPC design is 360-feet long, a 54-foot beam, and 17-foot draft. House appropriators propose to fully fund the program in FY '22. (Graphic: Eastern Shipbuilding Group.)

The Coast Guard this spring will award a contract for the second phase of its offshore patrol cutter (OPC) program that will cover the purchase of 11 medium endurance cutters, Adm. Karl Schultz, the service’s commandant, said on Wednesday. The planned timing of the award is in line with the solicitation issued in February 2020 for Stage 2 of the OPC program, which will follow the first phase, the production of the initial four OPCs by Eastern Shipbuilding Group. The…

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