The Polar Security Cutter Program is a program to recapitalize the United States Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star and the medium icebreaker USCGC Healy, with three new multi-mission vessels referred to as Polar Security Cutters (PSC). These heavy polar icebreakers will allow the USCG to perform its statutory missions in the Arctic as well as support the United States Antarctic Program with Operation Deep Freeze.[4][5]
The PSC program is managed by the USCG and United States Navy through an integrated program office. On 23 April 2019, Halter Marine Inc was awarded the contract for the detail design and construction of the lead PSC.[4] The contract option for the second PSC was exercised on 30 December 2021.[3] As of July 2023[update], the first vessel is expected to enter service in mid-to-late-2020s and will be named USCGC Polar Sentinel.[2][6][7]
In the future, the PSCs will be followed by the acquisition of three medium icebreakers referred to as Arctic Security Cutters (ASC).[5]
^Cite error: The named reference RL34391_sept2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abCite error: The named reference RL34391_jul2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ab"Halter Marine is awarded the second Polar Security Cutter for the United States Coast Guard". ST Engineering. 29 December 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^ ab"Polar Security Cutter". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ abCoast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, retrieved 2 January 2021
^"Delivery Of The U.S. Coast Guard's New Heavy Icebreaker Has Been Delayed Yet Again". The Drive. 3 December 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^"USCG's First Polar Security Cutter to be Named Polar Sentinel". MarineLink. 2022-02-24. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
and 23 Related for: Polar Security Cutter program information
larger than Polar Star (13,623 LT versus 16,000 LT, respectively). Replacement ships for what is called the PolarSecurityCutterprogram have been ordered...
Smaller cutters come under control of district commands. Cutters usually carry a motor surf boat and/or a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. Polar-class icebreakers...
Course" (Royal Navy) PolarSecurityCutterprogram, a new ship class under deve for the United States Coast Guard Private security contractor Constellation...
United States Coast Guard for the design and construction of new PolarSecurityCutter heavy icebreakers. In November 2022, Bollinger Shipyards agreed...
Snag". Military.com. Retrieved 2009-10-08. "Coast Guard ends cutter conversion program". marinelog.com. 2005-07-18. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03...
USCGC Midgett (WHEC-726) As of July 2022: 5 cutters ordered; 10 more optioned; 25 cutters total in program of record USCGC Argus (WMSM-915) USCGC Chase (WMSM-916)...
and Hunt Valve awarded to deliver essential valve to Coast Guard PolarSecurityCutter ( January 2024) FMD and Welin Lambie awarded to supply Ford Class...
defense. Heritage-class cutters are expected to eventually replace the Reliance- and Famous-class cutters as they are completed. Polar-class icebreaker (WAGB):...
States Revenue Cutter Service Captain Michael A. Healy. Her keel was laid on 16 September 1996. Healy joined the icebreakers Polar Star and Polar Sea in their...
missions: Ports and Waterways Coastal Security (PWCS); Aids to Navigation (ATON); and ship husbandry and repair in remote polar regions. The Dive Lockers, which...
intends to acquire the Mk 38 Mod 4 for installation on its future PolarSecurityCutters. The Mk 38 MGS is also used on offshore support vessels. Typhoon...
United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United...
Polar Icebreaker Museum. "Nameplate from Engineroom, 1952". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-11-15. "U.S. Coast Guard Cutter History"...
as patrol boats and lifeboats carried the prefix "Canadian Coast Guard Cutter", abbreviated CCGC in the past, however, this is no longer the case. The...
Coast Guard Rank and Specialty Insignias; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, USCG Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety, Auxiliary Division; last...
(WLBB-30) (2006–) PolarSecurityCutters USCGC Polar Sentinel (2028– (current estimate); ordered) Up to two additional PolarSecurityCutter are expected to...
jacket (FMJ) ball round to a 158 gr (0.36 oz; 10.2 g) .38 Special +P semi-wadCutter hollow-point (SWCHP), a violation of the Hague Convention of 1899 if used...
Identity Program. However, the CCG is one of several federal departments and agencies (primarily those involved with law enforcement, security, or having...
Boruff, B. J.; Easoz, J. A.; Jones, S. D.; Landry, H. R.; Mitchem, J. D.; Cutter, S. L. (2003). "Tornado hazards in the United States" (PDF). Climate Research...
Global Information