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Last Updated: | Fact Sheets

Snapshot: S&T helps create the next USCG Cutter Polar Ice Breaker

S&T’s Office of Standards understood the need to gather in-depth data to determine how to construct the next-generation icebreaker. To do that, they needed to see, first hand, how changes to the current construct reacted to ice.

Last Updated: | Testimony

Written testimony of USCG for a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation hearing titled “Coast Guard Arctic Implementation Capabilities”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Vice Commandant Admiral Charles Michel addresses Coast Guard’s expanding mission demands in the Arctic.

Last Updated: | Testimony

Written testimony of USCG for a House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard & Maritime Transportation hearing titled “The Federal Radionavigation Plan, the Foreign Spill Protection Act, and the National Icebreaker Fund Act of 2015”

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Director of Marine Transportation Systems Gary Rasicot and USCG Director of Incident Management and Preparedness Policy Mary Landry address the Coast Guard’s icebreaking needs, radio navigation plan, and oil spill response capabilities.