July 11, 2017

Coast Guard exercises option for fourth HC-130J Minotaur retrofit

The Coast Guard exercised a contract option June 30, worth approximately $3.3 million, with L3 Technologies Integrated Systems Platform Integration Division in Waco, Texas, for Minotaur missionization of one HC-130J Super Hercules long range surveillance aircraft.

July 5, 2017

Coast Guard commissions 23rd fast response cutter

The Coast Guard commissioned the 23rd fast response cutter (FRC), Benjamin Dailey, at its Pascagoula, Mississippi, homeport July 4.

June 30, 2017

HC-27J Asset Project Office receives 13th C-27J Spartan

The HC-27J Asset Project Office (APO) received the service’s 13th C-27J Spartan medium range surveillance aircraft June 22, 2017.

June 29, 2017

New sensors procured for Coast Guard C-27Js

As part of the Coast Guard’s efforts to equip the service’s C-27J Spartan medium range surveillance aircraft with components that further enhance mission capability, the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to FLIR Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Oregon, June 19.

June 28, 2017

Acquisition update: Coast Guard accepts 24th fast response cutter

The Coast Guard accepted delivery of the 24th fast response cutter (FRC), Oliver Berry, in Key West, Florida, June 27.

June 26, 2017

Acquisition update: Coast Guard awards C-27J deicing, auxiliary power unit contracts

The Coast Guard awarded two indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts in June for spare and repairable parts to support its C-27J Spartan medium range surveillance aircraft.

June 21, 2017

Acquisition update: HC-130J Minotaur prototype delivered to fleet

The Coast Guard’s program to integrate the Minotaur Mission System Suite across the long range surveillance aircraft fleet reached a major milestone with the return of the HC-130J Super Hercules Minotaur prototype to the operational fleet June 6.

June 20, 2017

Acquisition update: Coast Guard completes C-27J deliveries to Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, California, is operating with its full complement of aircraft following delivery of the sixth C-27J Spartan medium range surveillance aircraft May 1.

June 19, 2017

RDC Studies Diesel Outboard Engines

The Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) is studying the possibility of outfitting the service’s boats with diesel outboard engines in hopes of significantly reducing the logistics infrastructure necessary to maintain the fleet.

June 16, 2017

Acquisition update: Coast Guard exercises contract option for FRCs 39-44

The Coast Guard awarded a $289 million contract option to Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, Louisiana, June 9 for the production of six more fast response cutters (FRCs).