Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress

• Main Author: O'Rourke, Ronald
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. 2012
• Subjects: Defense policy; Coast Guard - U.S; Transportation; Ships; Environmental protection; Polar regions; Arctic regions; Science policy; Research; Arctic; Icebreaker
• Online Access: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc85474/

The Coast Guard's proposed FY2013 budget includes $8 million in acquisition funding to initiate survey and design activities for a new polar icebreaker. The Coast Guard's Five Year Capital Investment Plan includes an additional $852 million in FY2014-FY2017 for acquiring the ship. The Coast Guard anticipates awarding a construction contract for the ship "within the next five years" and taking delivery on the ship "within a decade." The project to design and build a polar icebreaker is a new acquisition project initiated in the FY2013 budget.