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The PSC program has received a total of $1,169.6 million (i.e., about $1.2 billion) in procurement funding through FY2020, including $135 million in FY2020, which was $100 million more than the $35 million that the Coast Guard had requested for FY2020. With the funding it has received through FY2020, the first PSC is now fully funded and the second PSC has received initial funding.\nThe Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2021 budget requests $555 million in procurement funding for the PSC program. It also proposes a rescission of $70 million in FY2020 funding that Congress had provided for the procurement of long lead time materials (LLTM) for a 12th National Security Cutter (NSC), with the intent of reprogramming that funding to the PSC program. The Coast Guard states that its proposed FY2021 budget, if approved by Congress, would fully fund the second PSC.\nThe Coast Guard estimates the total procurement costs of the three PSCs as $1,039 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) for the first ship, $792 million for the second ship, and $788 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated cost of $2,619 million (i.e., about $2.6 billion). Within those figures, the shipbuilder\u2019s portion of the total procurement cost is $746 million for the first ship, $544 million for the second ship, and $535 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated shipbuilder\u2019s cost of $1,825 million (i.e., about $1.8 billion).\nOn April 23, 2019, the Coast Guard-Navy Integrated Program Office for the PSC program awarded a $745.9 million fixed-price, incentive-firm contract for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of the first PSC to VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, MS, a shipyard owned by Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering. VT Halter was the leader of one of three industry teams that competed for the DD&C contract. The first PSC is scheduled to begin construction in 2021 and be delivered in 2024, though the DD&C contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.\nThe DD&C contract includes options for building the second and third PSCs. If these options are exercised, the total value of the contract would increase to $1,942.8 million (i.e., about $1.9 billion). The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. 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The PSC program has received a total of $1,169.6 million (i.e., about $1.2 billion) in procurement funding through FY2020, including $135 million in FY2020, which was $100 million more than the $35 million that the Coast Guard had requested for FY2020. With the funding it has received through FY2020, the first PSC is now fully funded and the second PSC has received initial funding.\nThe Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2021 budget requests $555 million in procurement funding for the PSC program. It also proposes a rescission of $70 million in FY2020 funding that Congress had provided for the procurement of long lead time materials (LLTM) for a 12th National Security Cutter (NSC), with the intent of reprogramming that funding to the PSC program. 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VT Halter was the leader of one of three industry teams that competed for the DD&C contract. The first PSC is scheduled to begin construction in 2021 and be delivered in 2024, though the DD&C contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.\nThe DD&C contract includes options for building the second and third PSCs. If these options are exercised, the total value of the contract would increase to $1,942.8 million (i.e., about $1.9 billion). The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. 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The PSC program has received a total of $1,169.6 million (i.e., about $1.2 billion) in procurement funding through FY2020. In FY2020, Congress provided $135 million for the program, which was $100 million more than the $35 million that the Coast Guard had requested.\nThe Coast Guard estimates the total procurement costs of the three PSCs as $1,039 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) for the first ship, $792 million for the second ship, and $788 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated cost of $2,619 million (i.e., about $2.6 billion). 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Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard plans to extend the service life of Polar Star until the delivery of at least the second PSC. 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The Coast Guard estimates the total procurement costs of the three heavy polar icebreakers as $1,039 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) for the first ship, $792 million for the second ship, and $788 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated cost of $2,619 million (i.e., about $2.6 billion). Within those figures, the shipbuilder\u2019s portion of the total procurement cost is $746 million for the first ship, $544 million for the second ship, and $535 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated shipbuilder\u2019s cost of $1,825 million (i.e., about $1.8 billion).\nOn April 23, 2019, the Coast Guard-Navy Integrated Program Office for the PSC program awarded a $745.9 million fixed-price, incentive-firm contract for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of the first PSC to VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, MS, a shipyard owned by Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering. VT Halter was the leader of one of three industry teams that competed for the DD&C contract. The first PSC is scheduled to begin construction in 2021 and be delivered in 2024, though the DD&C contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.\nThe DD&C contract includes options for building the second and third PSCs. If these options are exercised, the total value of the contract would increase to $1,942.8 million (i.e., about $1.9 billion). The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. When GFE and government program-management costs are included, the total estimated procurement cost of the first PSC is between $925 million and $940 million, and the total estimated procurement cost of the three-ship PSC program is about $2.95 billion.\nThe PSC program has received a total of $1,034.6 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) in procurement funding through FY2019, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account in FY2017 and FY2018. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2020 budget requests $35 million in procurement funding for the PSC program, which is enough to cover the PSC program\u2019s FY2020 government program-management costs. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 budget submission had projected that a total of $125 million in procurement funding would be requested for the PSC program in FY2020.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. 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The Coast Guard estimates the total procurement costs of the three heavy polar icebreakers as $1,039 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) for the first ship, $792 million for the second ship, and $788 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated cost of $2,619 million (i.e., about $2.6 billion). Within those figures, the shipbuilder\u2019s portion of the total procurement cost is $746 million for the first ship, $544 million for the second ship, and $535 million for the third ship, for a combined estimated shipbuilder\u2019s cost of $1,825 million (i.e., about $1.8 billion).\nOn April 23, 2019, the Coast Guard-Navy Integrated Program Office for the PSC program awarded a $745.9 million fixed-price, incentive-firm contract for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of the first PSC to VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, MS, a shipyard owned by Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering. VT Halter was the leader of one of three industry teams that competed for the DD&C contract. The first PSC is scheduled to begin construction in 2021 and be delivered in 2024, though the DD&C contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.\nThe DD&C contract includes options for building the second and third PSCs. If these options are exercised, the total value of the contract would increase to $1,942.8 million (i.e., about $1.9 billion). The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. 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The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. When GFE and government program-management costs are included, the total estimated procurement cost of the first PSC is between $925 million and $940 million, and the total estimated procurement cost of the three-ship PSC program is about $2.95 billion.\nThe PSC program has received a total of $1,034.6 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) in procurement funding through FY2019, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account in FY2017 and FY2018. 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On April 23, 2019, the Coast Guard-Navy Integrated Program Office for the PSC program awarded a $745.9 million fixed-price, incentive-firm contract for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of the first PSC to VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, MS, a shipyard owned by Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering. VT Halter was the leader of one of three industry teams that competed for the DD&C contract. The first PSC is scheduled to begin construction in 2021 and be delivered in 2024, though the DD&C contract includes financial incentives for earlier delivery.\nThe DD&C contract includes options for building the second and third PSCs. If these options are exercised, the total value of the contract would increase to $1,942.8 million (i.e., about $1.9 billion). The figures of $745.9 million and $1,942.8 million cover only the shipbuilder\u2019s costs; they do not include the cost of government-furnished equipment (GFE), which is equipment for the ships that the government purchases and then provides to the shipbuilder for incorporation into the ship, or government program-management costs. When GFE and government program-management costs are included, the total estimated procurement cost of the first PSC is between $925 million and $940 million, and the total estimated procurement cost of the three-ship PSC program is about $2.95 billion.\nThe PSC program has received a total of $1,034.6 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) in procurement funding through FY2019, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account in FY2017 and FY2018. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2020 budget requests $35 million in procurement funding for the PSC program, which is enough to cover the PSC program\u2019s FY2020 government program-management costs. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 budget submission had projected that a total of $125 million in procurement funding would be requested for the PSC program in FY2020.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. 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The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class.\nThe PSC program received about $359.6 million in procurement funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account (which is part of the Department of Defense\u2019s budget) and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s procurement account (which is part of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s [DHS\u2019s] budget). The FY2019 DHS Appropriations Act (Division A of H.J.Res. 31/P.L. 116-6 of February 15, 2019) provides an additional $675 million for the PSC program through the Coast Guard\u2019s procurement account, including $20 million for the procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the second ship in the program.\nThe PSC program has thus received a total of $1,034.6 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) in procurement funding through FY2019. Excluding the $20 million provided for the procurement of LLTM for the second ship in the program, the remaining total of $1,014.6 million appears to be enough (or perhaps more than enough) to fully fund the design and construction of the first ship in the program while also funding FY2019 and prior-year program administrative expenses. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 five-year (FY2019-FY2023) Capital Investment Plan (CIP) projected that the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2020 budget would request an additional $125 million in FY2020 procurement funding for the PSC program, most of which would presumably be used as a second increment of procurement funding for the second ship in the class.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nIssues for Congress for the PSC program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s annual procurement funding requests for the program; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to procure the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the procurement funding for the PSC program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; technical, schedule, and cost risk in the PSC program; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "2626a396b48aa8fda74b0b331e0c16df8f5248fb", "filename": "files/20190301_RL34391_2626a396b48aa8fda74b0b331e0c16df8f5248fb.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20190301_RL34391_images_1e865c2a07ecd15d0b1173a66bf2255e90c6aff1.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20190301_RL34391_images_e82ca97e238d417bfe8ea1b069357264fb3feb59.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20190301_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20190301_RL34391_images_2cd80b603d6b6c668b7a442fac6b97b882aca07f.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "e0eee293f8d91170b8f746d3783e5749d87f2775", "filename": "files/20190301_RL34391_e0eee293f8d91170b8f746d3783e5749d87f2775.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source_dir": "crsreports.congress.gov", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "retrieved": "2024-06-18T04:03:25.652224", "id": "RL34391_168_2019-02-15", "formats": [ { "filename": "files/2019-02-15_RL34391_3dd1f675093da0b76662998461895652078f0e49.pdf", "format": "PDF", "url": "https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL34391/168", "sha1": "3dd1f675093da0b76662998461895652078f0e49" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/2019-02-15_RL34391_3dd1f675093da0b76662998461895652078f0e49.html" } ], "date": "2019-02-15", "summary": null, "source": "CRSReports.Congress.gov", "typeId": "RL", "active": true, "sourceLink": "https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/details?prodcode=RL34391", "type": "CRS Report" }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 588692, "date": "2018-12-10", "retrieved": "2018-12-19T14:03:58.086304", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (PSC) program, previously known as the polar icebreaker (PIB) program, is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The PSC program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the PSC program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the PSC program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; technical, schedule, and cost risk in the PSC program; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "543602ae521025a5bdf90bd171c34e71308f04f6", "filename": "files/20181210_RL34391_543602ae521025a5bdf90bd171c34e71308f04f6.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20181210_RL34391_images_1e865c2a07ecd15d0b1173a66bf2255e90c6aff1.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20181210_RL34391_images_e82ca97e238d417bfe8ea1b069357264fb3feb59.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20181210_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20181210_RL34391_images_2cd80b603d6b6c668b7a442fac6b97b882aca07f.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "395f87491c82cc62b4adc216a53a32c28103ade5", "filename": "files/20181210_RL34391_395f87491c82cc62b4adc216a53a32c28103ade5.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 586947, "date": "2018-10-26", "retrieved": "2018-10-29T13:11:56.908470", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (PSC) program, previously known as the polar icebreaker (PIB) program, is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The PSC program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the polar icebreaker program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the PSC program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "2c76d52906ee50db0310671edcd0f338eaaae331", "filename": "files/20181026_RL34391_2c76d52906ee50db0310671edcd0f338eaaae331.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20181026_RL34391_images_1e865c2a07ecd15d0b1173a66bf2255e90c6aff1.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20181026_RL34391_images_e82ca97e238d417bfe8ea1b069357264fb3feb59.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20181026_RL34391_images_2cd80b603d6b6c668b7a442fac6b97b882aca07f.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20181026_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "0d964e06d6f34a0fe92a21c49128d981225541a0", "filename": "files/20181026_RL34391_0d964e06d6f34a0fe92a21c49128d981225541a0.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 584649, "date": "2018-08-03", "retrieved": "2018-09-10T13:14:39.040628", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard polar icebreaker program is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The polar icebreaker program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the polar icebreaker program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the polar icebreaker program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "e5f94256e4dc49606c53358bd541cb744e73b814", "filename": "files/20180803_RL34391_e5f94256e4dc49606c53358bd541cb744e73b814.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20180803_RL34391_images_1e865c2a07ecd15d0b1173a66bf2255e90c6aff1.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20180803_RL34391_images_e82ca97e238d417bfe8ea1b069357264fb3feb59.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20180803_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20180803_RL34391_images_2cd80b603d6b6c668b7a442fac6b97b882aca07f.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "57075adf0adfceef7c0a7bf065266ff30fdb2caa", "filename": "files/20180803_RL34391_57075adf0adfceef7c0a7bf065266ff30fdb2caa.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 582699, "date": "2018-07-09", "retrieved": "2018-07-10T20:01:00.267808", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard polar icebreaker program is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The polar icebreaker program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the polar icebreaker program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the polar icebreaker program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "0d1d49a646d1804b0f0abec6d69e1fca43e3d930", "filename": "files/20180709_RL34391_0d1d49a646d1804b0f0abec6d69e1fca43e3d930.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20180709_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20180709_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20180709_RL34391_images_3469b67da6031c893c7a160351dbd3286a3c7129.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20180709_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "bb0f2c3814832f8bbe53e3d0b2cfb715f479d815", "filename": "files/20180709_RL34391_bb0f2c3814832f8bbe53e3d0b2cfb715f479d815.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 581401, "date": "2018-05-23", "retrieved": "2018-05-24T22:04:25.018278", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard polar icebreaker program is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The polar icebreaker program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. An April 13, 2018, Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the polar icebreaker program states that the Coast Guard has reduced its estimated cost for the first heavy polar icebreaker to less than $900 million, which would imply an average cost of something more than $600 million each for the second and third icebreakers. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the polar icebreaker program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the polar icebreaker program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "d41bca3e7ff285f4db4abecab73a47f60f7a46d2", "filename": "files/20180523_RL34391_d41bca3e7ff285f4db4abecab73a47f60f7a46d2.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20180523_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20180523_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20180523_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20180523_RL34391_images_3469b67da6031c893c7a160351dbd3286a3c7129.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "6c5609c5f15399899a160bcf2e8578ad7a0ab9cb", "filename": "files/20180523_RL34391_6c5609c5f15399899a160bcf2e8578ad7a0ab9cb.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 580332, "date": "2018-04-18", "retrieved": "2018-04-24T13:08:23.486297", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard polar icebreaker program is a program to acquire three new heavy polar icebreakers, to be followed years from now by the acquisition of up to three new medium polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker in FY2019 and have it enter service in 2023. The polar icebreaker program has received about $359.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2018, including $300 million provided through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account and $59.6 million provided through the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account. The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests $750 million in Coast Guard acquisition funding for the program.\nThe acquisition cost of a new heavy polar icebreaker had earlier been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe that three heavy polar icebreakers could be acquired for a total cost of about $2.1 billion, or an average of about $700 million per ship. The first ship will cost more than the other two because it will incorporate design costs for the class and be at the start of the production learning curve for the class. An April 13, 2018, Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the polar icebreaker program states that the Coast Guard has reduced its estimated cost for the first heavy polar icebreaker to less than $900 million, which would imply an average cost of something more than $600 million each for the second and third icebreakers. When combined with the program\u2019s $359.6 million in prior-year funding, the $750 million requested for FY2019 would fully fund the procurement of the first new heavy polar icebreaker and partially fund the procurement of the second.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. The Coast Guard has used Polar Sea as a source of spare parts for keeping Polar Star operational.\nA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn March 2, 2018, the U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under the polar icebreaker integrated program office, released a request for proposal (RFP) for the advance procurement and detail design for the Coast Guard\u2019s heavy polar icebreaker, with options for detail design and construction for up to three heavy polar icebreakers.\nIssues for Congress for FY2019 for the polar icebreaker program include, inter alia, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2019 acquisition funding request; whether to use a contract with options or a block buy contract to acquire the ships; whether to continue providing at least some of the acquisition funding for the polar icebreaker program through the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account; and whether to procure heavy and medium polar icebreakers to a common basic design.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "84fafb221af4ec376488afbe732d006d0e0772da", "filename": "files/20180418_RL34391_84fafb221af4ec376488afbe732d006d0e0772da.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20180418_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20180418_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20180418_RL34391_images_3469b67da6031c893c7a160351dbd3286a3c7129.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20180418_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "f59042b96a2206859728368a657cbf74e00df529", "filename": "files/20180418_RL34391_f59042b96a2206859728368a657cbf74e00df529.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 576001, "date": "2017-11-30", "retrieved": "2017-12-05T13:58:54.933254", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019. The project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission and has received about $190.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2017. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker had been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe the ship could cost less than $1 billion.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. The summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. On October 19, 2017, the Navy, in collaboration with the Coast Guard under an integrated program office for the polar icebreaker project, released a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the detail design and construction of one heavy polar icebreaker with options for two additional such ships. Industry responses to the draft RFP are due by December 11, 2017.\nA contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative would be to procure the three envisaged polar icebreakers with a block buy contract. Compared to annual contracting, a block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that using a block buy contract could reduce the combined acquisition cost of three heavy polar icebreakers by upwards of $200 million. A congressionally mandated July 2017 report on polar icebreakers from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends using a block buy contract to procure a single class of four science-ready heavy polar icebreakers so as to meet (along with continued operation of Healy) U.S. needs for both heavy and medium polar icebreakers.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "9a8128149684f3bf2ea2f55717841b4a4ca48e96", "filename": "files/20171130_RL34391_9a8128149684f3bf2ea2f55717841b4a4ca48e96.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20171130_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20171130_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20171130_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20171130_RL34391_images_3469b67da6031c893c7a160351dbd3286a3c7129.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "a76fac34355050b0f436632b6a877dd1a54a0e41", "filename": "files/20171130_RL34391_a76fac34355050b0f436632b6a877dd1a54a0e41.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 574870, "date": "2017-10-24", "retrieved": "2017-10-31T13:22:28.877764", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019. The project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission and has received about $190.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2017. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker had been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, but the Coast Guard and Navy now believe the ship could cost less than $1 billion.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. Polar Sea, however, suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. The summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. On October 19, 2017, the Navy, in collaboration with the Coast Guard under an integrated program office for the polar icebreaker project, released a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the detail design and construction of one heavy polar icebreaker with options for two additional such ships. Industry responses to the draft RFP are due by December 11, 2017.\nA contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative would be to procure the three envisaged polar icebreakers with a block buy contract. Compared to annual contracting, a block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that using a block buy contract could reduce the combined acquisition cost of three heavy polar icebreakers by upwards of $200 million. A congressionally mandated July 2017 report on polar icebreakers from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends using a block buy contract to procure a single class of four science-ready heavy polar icebreakers so as to meet (along with continued operation of Healy) U.S. needs for both heavy and medium polar icebreakers.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "98be45829af17b3f3300c10dda106ecff8800749", "filename": "files/20171024_RL34391_98be45829af17b3f3300c10dda106ecff8800749.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20171024_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20171024_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20171024_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20171024_RL34391_images_3469b67da6031c893c7a160351dbd3286a3c7129.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "9f3cdc23ecebe36dd9997caeaa41c4adc26d98da", "filename": "files/20171024_RL34391_9f3cdc23ecebe36dd9997caeaa41c4adc26d98da.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 573596, "date": "2017-09-14", "retrieved": "2017-10-02T22:24:50.593215", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker had generally been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, including design costs, but a congressionally mandated July 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on the acquisition and operation of polar icebreakers estimates that the ship could cost less (and perhaps considerably less) than $1 billion.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $220.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2017, including $175 million in FY2017 that was provided in the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account ($25 million) and the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account ($150 million).\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been nonoperational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively.\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7%, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million. The July 2017 NASEM report recommends using a block buy contract to procure a single class of four science-ready heavy polar icebreakers to meet (along with continued operation of Healy) U.S. needs for both heavy and medium polar icebreakers.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "ac492c757e79e9dc8f9d6c87c843d5b00fcfd9ed", "filename": "files/20170914_RL34391_ac492c757e79e9dc8f9d6c87c843d5b00fcfd9ed.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20170914_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20170914_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/3.png": "files/20170914_RL34391_images_4d849e6787b1e6b09b71b02d6b476db3d6252f56.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20170914_RL34391_images_7a8ea97c67e3dc52ffba1ca2f73f7b6e7ff56ffd.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "476ccc8b8a4d47f01cb89708464cf6d4989a8acc", "filename": "files/20170914_RL34391_476ccc8b8a4d47f01cb89708464cf6d4989a8acc.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 463296, "date": "2017-08-15", "retrieved": "2017-08-22T13:21:59.800714", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker had generally been estimated informally at roughly $1 billion, including design costs, but a congressionally mandated July 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on the acquisition and operation of polar icebreakers estimates that the ship could cost less (and perhaps considerably less) than $1 billion.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $220.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2017, including $175 million in FY2017 that was provided in the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account ($25 million) and the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account ($150 million).\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively.\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7%, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million. The July 2017 NASEM report recommends using a block buy contract to procure a single class of four science-ready heavy polar icebreakers to meet (along with continued operation of Healy) U.S. needs for both heavy and medium polar icebreakers.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "efed126eeabf9293940be5cebe9b375931f9d388", "filename": "files/20170815_RL34391_efed126eeabf9293940be5cebe9b375931f9d388.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/2.png": "files/20170815_RL34391_images_d76b751e8775140d5d2c9d6e842f0ede4452b116.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/1.png": "files/20170815_RL34391_images_fc81431728711133d1ad86f40c892af4a6868eab.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL34391_files&id=/0.png": "files/20170815_RL34391_images_7a8ea97c67e3dc52ffba1ca2f73f7b6e7ff56ffd.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "636f0d37856898351c381a6cabb7bbb6990a7270", "filename": "files/20170815_RL34391_636f0d37856898351c381a6cabb7bbb6990a7270.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 461731, "date": "2017-06-01", "retrieved": "2017-06-16T16:06:10.010105", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2019 has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $220.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2017, including $175 million in FY2017 that was provided in the Coast Guard\u2019s acquisition account ($25 million) and the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding account ($150 million).\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. (Each ship would be commissioned into service a few weeks or months after it is delivered.)\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative to a contract with options would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7%, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "35986ea9395196dc0637f28f42c71cb46e2a37f6", "filename": "files/20170601_RL34391_35986ea9395196dc0637f28f42c71cb46e2a37f6.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "929959541aceff38557a092b4c8e13ca17f6ba1a", "filename": "files/20170601_RL34391_929959541aceff38557a092b4c8e13ca17f6ba1a.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 461253, "date": "2017-05-12", "retrieved": "2017-05-24T16:21:39.812241", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $50 million projected for FY2019, $150 million projected for FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. (Each ship would be commissioned into service a few weeks or months after it is delivered.)\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative to a contract with options would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7%, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million.\nA new heavy polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025, while Polar Star was refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. Consequently, another potential issue for Congress concerns how to bridge the time between the end of Polar Star\u2019s current intended service life and the entry into service of one or more new heavy polar icebreakers. There are at least two options for bridging this time period: One would be to further extend the service life of Polar Star and/or repair and extend the service life of Polar Sea. The other would be to charter (i.e., lease) one or more other icebreakers (perhaps foreign-owned ones), if such ships are available for charter and have capabilities for performing missions performed by U.S. heavy polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard is examining the feasibility and potential cost effectiveness of either further extending the service life of Polar Star or repairing Polar Sea.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "c1e015e5a2967ec27566ff0398affcb7b266699e", "filename": "files/20170512_RL34391_c1e015e5a2967ec27566ff0398affcb7b266699e.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "4ff5c9c5df9a3c10cf50ee30dda7d41cd0fc226d", "filename": "files/20170512_RL34391_4ff5c9c5df9a3c10cf50ee30dda7d41cd0fc226d.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 459886, "date": "2017-03-20", "retrieved": "2017-03-29T20:05:44.432925", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $50 million projected for FY2019, $150 million projected for FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. (Each ship would be commissioned into service a few weeks or months after it is delivered.)\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative to a contract with options would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7%, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million.\nA new heavy polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025, while Polar Star was refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. Consequently, another potential issue for Congress concerns how to bridge the time between the end of Polar Star\u2019s current intended service life and the entry into service of one or more new heavy polar icebreakers. There are at least two options for bridging this time period: One would be to further extend the service life of Polar Star and/or repair and extend the service life of Polar Sea. The other would be to charter (i.e., lease) one or more other icebreakers (perhaps foreign-owned ones), if such ships are available for charter and have capabilities for performing missions performed by U.S. heavy polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard is examining the feasibility and potential cost effectiveness of either further extending the service life of Polar Star or repairing Polar Sea.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "e7b52c42d5140db04e6d1fd7c607217bba4d22f6", "filename": "files/20170320_RL34391_e7b52c42d5140db04e6d1fd7c607217bba4d22f6.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "310caba1ba21adb4e8758756362c7f1f52de3c32", "filename": "files/20170320_RL34391_310caba1ba21adb4e8758756362c7f1f52de3c32.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 457023, "date": "2016-11-10", "retrieved": "2016-11-21T15:08:37.543145", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $50 million projected for FY2019, $150 million projected for FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes....\u201d\nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn October 26, 2016, the Coast Guard released a request for information (RFI) to receive industry feedback on its notional polar icebreaker acquisition approach and schedule. The summary of the RFI, dated October 25, 2016, presents a notional schedule for acquiring three heavy polar icebreakers under which procurement of long leadtime materials (LLTM) for the three ships would start in the fourth quarter of FY2019, the second quarter of FY2021, and the second quarter of FY2022, respectively, and the ships would be delivered in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the second quarter of FY2025, and the second quarter of FY2026, respectively. (Each ship would be commissioned into service a few weeks or months after it is delivered.)\nThe summary of the RFI states that the Coast Guard currently envisions having a single U.S. shipyard build all three ships under a contract with options. A contract with options can be viewed as a form of annual contracting. An alternative to a contract with options would be a block buy contract. A block buy contract would reduce the government\u2019s flexibility regarding whether and when to acquire the second and third ships, and what design to build them to, and in return reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships. CRS estimates that compared to costs using a contract with options, using a block buy contract that included economic order quantity (EOQ) purchases (i.e., up-front batch purchases) of materials and components for the three ships would reduce the combined acquisition cost of the three ships by upwards of 7 percent, which could equate to a savings of upwards of $200 million.\nA new heavy polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025, while Polar Star was refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. Consequently, another potential issue for Congress concerns how to bridge the time between the end of Polar Star\u2019s current intended service life and the entry into service of one or more new heavy polar icebreakers. There are at least two options for bridging this time period: One would be to further extend the service life of Polar Star and/or repair and extend the service life of Polar Sea. The other would be to charter (i.e., lease) one or more other icebreakers (perhaps foreign-owned ones), if such ships are available for charter and have capabilities for performing missions performed by U.S. heavy polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard is examining the feasibility and potential cost effectiveness of either further extending the service life of Polar Star or repairing Polar Sea.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "e84e0e7103aa810c2c38b70453d61142c3d412ea", "filename": "files/20161110_RL34391_e84e0e7103aa810c2c38b70453d61142c3d412ea.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "499ecb35f17d852313677cbba9ab7c23e5713f70", "filename": "files/20161110_RL34391_499ecb35f17d852313677cbba9ab7c23e5713f70.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 456507, "date": "2016-10-13", "retrieved": "2016-10-24T14:51:17.856279", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $50 million projected for FY2019, $150 million projected for FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of a new polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes.... \u201d\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet in conjunction with a visit to Alaska by President Obama indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn January 13, 2016, the Coast Guard announced that would hold an industry day for the polar icebreaker program, followed by one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and prospective shipbuilders and ship designers, as a part of the Coast Guard\u2019s ongoing market research for the program. The industry day was held on March 18, 2016, and the one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and industry officials were scheduled for March 28-31, with industry feedback to be submitted to the Coast Guard by April 5, 2016.\nThe Coast Guard\u2019s notional schedule for the program, which could change, shows a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) being released in the first quarter of FY2017, a final RFP being released in the fourth quarter of FY2017 or the first quarter of FY2018, Coast Guard evaluation of received proposals taking place from the third or fourth quarter of FY2018 through the third or fourth quarter of FY2019, a contract award being made in the third or fourth quarter of FY2019, and construction of the ship beginning in the third or fourth quarter of FY2019.\nA new heavy polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025, while Polar Star was refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. Consequently, another potential issue for Congress concerns how to bridge the time between the end of Polar Star\u2019s current intended service life and the entry into service of one or more new heavy polar icebreakers. There are at least two options for bridging this time period: One would be to further extend the service life of Polar Star and/or repair and extend the service life of Polar Sea. The other would be to charter (i.e., lease) one or more other icebreakers (perhaps foreign-owned ones), if such ships are available for charter and have capabilities for performing missions performed by U.S. heavy polar icebreakers. The Coast Guard is examining the feasibility and potential cost effectiveness of either further extending the service life of Polar Star or repairing Polar Sea.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "893c524c84a19a73a6afe0447588c3553ed747d5", "filename": "files/20161013_RL34391_893c524c84a19a73a6afe0447588c3553ed747d5.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "0d7f197e9a2549d0c0e4dfa1954e4c9352ced846", "filename": "files/20161013_RL34391_0d7f197e9a2549d0c0e4dfa1954e4c9352ced846.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 454186, "date": "2016-07-08", "retrieved": "2016-09-09T19:13:55.763206", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $200 million projected for FY2019 and FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of the ship has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes.... \u201d\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet in conjunction with a visit to Alaska by President Obama indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn January 13, 2016, the Coast Guard announced that it intended to hold an industry day for the polar icebreaker program, followed by one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and prospective shipbuilders and ship designers, as a part of the Coast Guard\u2019s ongoing market research for the program. The industry day was held on March 18, 2016, and the one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and industry officials were scheduled for March 28-31, with industry feedback to be submitted to the Coast Guard by April 5, 2016.\nThe Coast Guard\u2019s notional schedule for the program, which could change, shows a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) being released in the first quarter of FY2017, a final RFP being released in the fourth quarter of FY2017 or the first quarter of FY2018, Coast Guard evaluation of received proposals taking place from the third or fourth quarter of FY2018 through the third or fourth quarter of FY2019, a contract award being made in the third or fourth quarter of FY2019, and construction of the ship beginning in the third or fourth quarter of FY2019.\nA polar icebreaker that begins construction in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025. Polar Star has been refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. The Coast Guard is examining the feasibility and potential cost effectiveness of either further extending the service life of Polar Star or repairing Polar Sea and bringing it back into service, so as to bridge the time between the end of Polar Star\u2019s intended current 7- to 10-year operating period and the entry into service of a new polar icebreaker.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL34391", "sha1": "a7928e75b6ba73a7806b85c8347da09267595a23", "filename": "files/20160708_RL34391_a7928e75b6ba73a7806b85c8347da09267595a23.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL34391", "sha1": "03374a6d1291ee8d45dd5be60ba61a2fa847076e", "filename": "files/20160708_RL34391_03374a6d1291ee8d45dd5be60ba61a2fa847076e.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 3148, "name": "Conventional Weapons and Military Equipment" }, { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4531, "name": "Defense Authorization" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 452971, "date": "2016-05-27", "retrieved": "2016-06-21T21:12:44.857819", "title": "Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Coast Guard\u2019s proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The Coast Guard\u2019s FY2017-FY2021 five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) includes a total of $780 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker, including the $150 million requested for FY2017, $200 million projected for FY2019 and FY2020, and $430 million projected for FY2021. The total acquisition cost of the ship has not been officially estimated but might be roughly $1 billion, including design costs.\nThe project to acquire a new polar icebreaker was initiated in the Coast Guard\u2019s FY2013 budget submission. The project has received about $15.6 million in acquisition funding through FY2016. The $150 million requested for FY2017 is the first major increment of acquisition funding requested for the ship, and would fund planning design activities required to begin production of the ship in FY2020.\nCoast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in polar regions. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Mission Need Statement (MNS) approved in June 2013 states that \u201ccurrent requirements and future projections ... indicate the Coast Guard will need to expand its icebreaking capacity, potentially requiring a fleet of up to six icebreakers (3 heavy and 3 medium) to adequately meet mission demands in the high latitudes.... \u201d\nThe operational U.S. polar icebreaking fleet currently consists of one heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, and one medium polar icebreaker, Healy. In addition to Polar Star, the Coast Guard has a second heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Sea. This ship suffered an engine casualty in June 2010 and has been non-operational since then. Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet in conjunction with a visit to Alaska by President Obama indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn January 13, 2016, the Coast Guard announced that it intended to hold an industry day for the polar icebreaker program, followed by one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and prospective shipbuilders and ship designers, as a part of the Coast Guard\u2019s ongoing market research for the program. 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Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to acquire one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet in conjunction with a visit to Alaska by President Obama indicating that the Administration wants to begin building a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to begin building in FY2020.\nOn January 13, 2016, the Coast Guard announced that it intended to hold an industry day for the polar icebreaker program, followed by one-on-one meetings between the Coast Guard and prospective shipbuilders and ship designers, as a part of the Coast Guard\u2019s ongoing market research for the program. 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Polar Star and Polar Sea entered service in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and are now well beyond their originally intended 30-year service lives. \nThe current condition of the U.S. polar icebreaker fleet, the DHS MNS, and concerns among some observers about whether the United States is adequately investing in capabilities to carry out its responsibilities and defend its interests in the Arctic, have focused policymaker attention on the question of whether and when to procure one or more new heavy polar icebreakers as replacements for Polar Star and Polar Sea.\nOn September 1, 2015, the White House issued a fact sheet in conjunction with a visit to Alaska by President Obama indicating that the Administration wants to procure a new polar icebreaker in FY2020, and that the Administration will also \u201cbegin planning for construction of additional icebreakers\u201d beyond the one that the Administration proposes to procure in FY2020.\nOn January 13, 2016, the Coast Guard announced that \u201cthe United States Coast Guard (USCG) Polar Icebreaker Replacement Program intends to host an Industry Day followed by one-on-one meetings with prospective shipbuilders and ship designers as a part of ongoing market research.... Industry Day is tentatively planned to occur in March 2016.\u201d As part of this announcement, the Coast Guard released an industry data package for the polar icebreaker replacement program. A notional schedule for the program included in the package shows a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) being released in the first quarter of FY2017, a final RFP being released in the fourth quarter of FY2017 or the first quarter of FY2018, a contract award being made between the fourth quarter of FY2018 and the fourth quarter of FY2019, and construction of the ship beginning as soon as the fourth quarter of FY2019.\nA polar icebreaker procured in FY2020 might enter service in 2024 or 2025. Polar Star has been refurbished and reentered service in December 2012 for an intended period of 7 to 10 years\u2014a period that will end between December 2019 and December 2022. 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