Last May, DHS approved production of the service's first polar security cutter to be built in nearly five decades.

The Coast Guard in January began land-based deployments of its V-BAT unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), which are typically used aboard the service’s fleet ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is in the midst of negotiating a firm, fixed-price contract for its fourth National Security Cutter (NSC) as the last vestiges of Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS), the former ...

KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard commissioned its newest and sixth Arctic District Fast Response Cutter  (FRC), Coast Guard ...

The 418-foot-long national security cutter and its roughly 150 crew arrived in Juneau on Thursday morning. It’s homeported in Alameda, California. Petty Officer 1st Class Travis McGee said the ship is ...

With cruise ships months away from docking into Juneau’s harbor, the port welcomed a new visitor Wednesday: the USCGC Waesche ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant’s (WMEC 617) small boat crew comes alongside a motor tanker in the Atlantic Ocean, Jan. 7, 2026. Vigilant escorted the motor tanker, which was seized by a Coast Guard ...

An estimated $20 billion Coast Guard shipbuilding program that has failed to put a cutter into service amid ballooning costs and lengthy delays must have better oversight, according to a government ...

Texas is again leading on border security, this time in the Arctic. New icebreakers are being built for the U.S. Coast Guard in Galveston and Port ...

The Coast Guard’s fleet of Guam-based buoy tenders is at its full complement for the first time in nearly a decade with Wednesday’s arrival of the cutter Hickory. The Hickory arrived at Apra Harbor ...