Coast Guard Mission Readiness

What the document says

“there is appropriated to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $24,593,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029”

The section adds a new subchapter V and section 1181 to chapter 11 of title 14, United States Code, appropriating $24,593,500,000 to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029, notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1105(a) and sections 1131, 1132, 1133 and 1156. The money is to use expedited processes to buy new operational assets and systems, to maintain existing ones, to design, build, plan, engineer and improve shore infrastructure, and to strengthen operations for monitoring, search and rescue, interdiction, hardening of maritime approaches and navigational safety.

What the document says

“$4,300,000,000 is provided for procurement of Offshore Patrol Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to provide operational presence and security of the maritime border and for interdiction of persons and controlled substances;”

Nine of the thirteen line items buy aircraft and ships: $1,142,500,000 for fixed-wing aircraft, $2,283,000,000 for rotary-wing aircraft and $266,000,000 for long-range unmanned aircraft and base stations, each for maritime border security; $4,300,000,000 for Offshore Patrol Cutters and $1,000,000,000 for Fast Response Cutters, for presence, border security and interdiction of persons and controlled substances; $4,300,000,000 for Polar Security Cutters and $3,500,000,000 for Arctic Security Cutters, to ensure timely presence in the Arctic and Antarctic; $816,000,000 for light and medium icebreaking cutters; and $162,000,000 for Waterways Commerce Cutters, to support aids to navigation, waterways and coastal security and inland search and rescue.

What the document says

“$816,000,000 is provided for procurement of light and medium icebreaking cutters, and equipment relating to such cutters, from shipyards that have demonstrated success in the cost-effective application of design standards”

The section provides $816,000,000 for light and medium icebreaking cutters and related equipment, to be bought from shipyards that have shown success in applying design standards cost effectively and in delivering vessels of at least that size and tonnage on schedule and within budget, together with program management, to expand domestic icebreaking capacity.

What the document says

“$4,379,000,000 is provided for design, planning, engineering, recapitalization, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of, and program management for, shore facilities, of which--”

The section provides $4,379,000,000 for shore facilities, of which $425,000,000 goes to the enlisted boot camp barracks, a multi-use training center and related facilities; $500,000,000 to construction, improvement and dredging at the Coast Guard Yard and to buying a floating drydock there; no more than $2,729,500,000 to homeports and hangars for the cutters and aircraft bought under the earlier items; and $300,000,000 to homeporting the polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025. The remaining items are $2,200,000,000 for depot maintenance of aviation, cutter, shore and communications assets, $170,000,000 for maritime domain awareness, and $75,000,000 for autonomous maritime systems.