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Grumman Ingalls Operations shipyard in

Pascagoula, Miss., with keel-laying scheduled this spring. The Coast Guard's contract for the second WMSL was awarded to ICGS in early January.

Northrop Grumman Ship Systems will lead the production effort, with Lockheed

Martin responsible for the design, manu- facture, and integration of the cutter's sys- tems for C4ISR (command, control, com- munications, computers, intelligence, sur- veillance, and reconnaissance).

Also in June, the Coast Guard awarded a contract to ICGS to begin the design and final requirements work for the Maritime

Security Cutter, Medium (WMSM, for- merly the Offshore Patrol Cutter). This contract advanced the original WMSM delivery date to 2009, approximately three years ahead of its original schedule.

The design and final requirements for the third class of Deepwater cutters, the Mar- itime Patrol Coastal (WPC, formerly the

Fast Response Cutter), also are expected to move forward quickly in 2005.

The new cutters will possess improved capabilities for sea keeping, higher sus- tained transit speeds, greater endurance and range, and be able to launch and recover manned and unmanned aerial vehicles in higher sea states-all critical to more effective maritime operations at sea and close to shore. Deepwater cutters, for example, will enable the Coast Guard to implement increased security responsibil- ities-including greater jurisdiction over foreign-flagged vessels, screening and targeting of vessels of interest, and on- board verification through boardings and enforcement-control actions.

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Workers fabricate an innerbottom hull section for the first Coast Guard Maritime Security Cutter, Large (WMSL) at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems ship- yard in Pascagoula, Miss., in early January. Fabrication began in early September as part of the Coast Guard's

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Coast Guard Systems. (Photo courtesy of Steven J. Blount, NGSS )

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