Sullivan Plans Bill To Improve Coast Guard, Navy Cooperation In Arctic; Forms Coast Guard Caucus

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Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Thursday said he is authoring legislation aimed at further increasing cooperation in the Arctic region between the Coast Guard and Navy for sustained operations and also said that he and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) have formed a caucus in the Senate to support Coast Guard needs. The bill will “further advance collaboration between” the two services “to increase their effectiveness for carrying out sustained operations in the Arctic,” Sullivan, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee’s Subcommittee on Security, said at the outset of a hearing on the Coast Guard’s strategy in the Arctic. “This bill will direct the strategic focus, infrastructure investment, and capability development needed to rapidly respond to crises in the Arctic, secure our sovereignty through persistence of presence in this region of increasing great power competition and part of the reason for this hearing is to help inform that bill as we’re putting the final touches on it,” Sullivan said. Sullivan also said that he and Markey, the ranking member on the subcommittee, and other senators just formed the bipartisan Senate Coast Guard Caucus “to bolster and strengthen this important branch of the armed services.”