Capability in the High Latitudes

摘要

The article reports that with the fiscal 2019 U.S. budget of U.S. Coast Guard found itself able to direct more than 1.5 billion dollars toward the acquisition and construction of new vessels. Topics include central to this investment is to award a contract and deliver a new heavy icebreaker by 2023 and the outgoing commandant Admiral Paul F. Zukunft stated to have announced the imminent release of the request for proposal (RFP) to acquire the first heavy icebreaker.