USCG to award contract for Polar Security Cutter “this spring”
The U.S. Coast Guard is set to award the contract for the first Polar Security Cutter in the very near future. Giving the 2019 State of the Coast Guard address at Coast
The U.S. Coast Guard is set to award the contract for the first Polar Security Cutter in the very near future. Giving the 2019 State of the Coast Guard address at Coast
The spending bill signed into law February 15 by President Trump —the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 — includes seven regular appropriations bills for fiscal year 2019, including the Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, yesterday announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $1 million contract to shipbuilder VT Halter Marine,
Alaska U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R.-Alaska) and Representative Mary Peltola (D.-Alaska) today announced that they have successfully secured federal funding for the purchase of a commercially available Icebreaker
Earlier this week, Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding hosted U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R.-Miss.) and a delegation of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders at its facility in Pascagoula, Miss. In addition to Senator
Both the U.S. and Canada are both building their first polar icebreakers in decades. Polar icebreakers use steel that is considerably thicker than in conventional ships and with tight frame spacings to
Two key U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding programs — the OPC and PSC projects — are “billions of dollars over their initial cost estimates and are more than two years behind schedule,” according
The U.S. Senate last night passed the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 by a vote of 83-11, clearing the way for it to go to the
Bollinger Shipyards LLC today made a number of leadership announcements following its recent acquisition of Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding (BMS) and Bollinger Mississippi Repair (BMR), formerly VT Halter Marine and STEHMO. Notably, all
Bollinger Shipyards, the largest privately-owned and operated shipbuilder in the United States, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of VT Halter Marine, Inc. and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore (STEHMO)