Prior to 2012, USCG had no centralized oil laboratory testing and analysis program. Cutters sent oil samples to the Navy Oil Analysis Program (NOAP) or Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP) labs, engine manufacturer labs and other local commercial labs. “It typically took weeks after the samples...
When the contract awards were announced, then-Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp said that The OPC program, “is the most important — not just shipbuilding — but the most important acquisition program that the Coast Guard has done in its history.” Fast Response Cutter The Coast Guard’...
(USCG photo by Sara Muir) The U.S. Coast Guard’s second of three new 154-foot fast response cutters (FRC) stationed in Hawaii arrived at its homeport of Honolulu on Sunday. The new cutter, Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126), was built by Bollinger Shipyards in Louisiana anddelivered the U.S...