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Fast Response Cutter - B Class

The Coast Guard was conceived in 1787, when America’s first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, wrote "a few armed vessels, judiciously stationed at entrances to our ports, might at a small expense be made useful sentinels of our laws."

The Fast Response Cutter (FRC), a new generation of Coast Guard patrol boats, will continue the Coast Guard’s long history of protecting America’s citizens, assets and interests at home and abroad. The first FRC will be named the Coast Guard Cutter SENTINEL, with the official class designation as the SENTINEL class. Learn more about the FRC

Status

The Coast Guard released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to industry on June 22, 2007. Parent Craft design, management, technical and administrative proposals were due November 19, 2007. Price proposals were due December 4, 2007. Proposals are currently being evaluated. The contract was initially expected to be awarded in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2008. The proposal evaluation period has been extended to give offerors with the most highly rated proposals an opportunity to improve their proposals and address any deficiencies and/or weaknesses. The anticipated award date is now September or early October of this year.

The first cutter is planned for delivery in 2010 and the first 12 cutters are planned for delivery by 2012.