SAS 2015: Eastern scores high for USCG cutter
Eastern Shipbuilding is displaying a model of its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) at Sea-Air-Space 2015 that is being used to compete for the US Coast Guard (USCG) OPC programme.
The USCG OPC programme is worth $10.7 billion and Eastern Shipbuilding, alongside Bollinger Shipyards and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works is nine months in to an 18-month engineering design phase worth $22 million each.
In early 2016 the programme is expected to move into a final design phase but this could be pushed back. The OPC programme was earlier delayed by 90 days because of a protest by Huntingdon Ingalls Industries
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