Funding Spec You’ve got a lot of budget questions to answer about your plan O’Rourke 6/14 (Specialist in Naval Affairs, Congressional Research Service, “Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress,” ) Potential issues for Congress regarding Coast Guard polar icebreaker modernization include the potential numbers and capabilities impact on U.S. polar missions of the United States currently having no operational heavy polar icebreakers; the of the Coast Guard will need the disposition of Polar Sea following its polar icebreakers in the future; decommissioning; whether the new polar icebreaker initiated in the FY23013 budget should be funded with incremental funding or full funding in a (as proposed in the Coast Guard’s Five Year Capital Investment Plan) single year, whether new polar icebreakers should be funded as required under the executive branch’s full funding policy; entirely in the Coast Guard budget, or partly or entirely in some other part of the federal budget, such as the whether to provide future Department of Defense (DOD) budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget, or both; icebreaking capability through construction of new ships or service life extensions of existing polar icebreakers; and whether future polar icebreakers should be acquired through a traditional acquisition or a leasing arrangement.
Funding Spec You’ve got a lot of budget questions to answer about your plan O’Rourke 6/14 (Specialist in Naval Affairs, Congressional Research Service, “Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress,” ) Potential issues for Congress regarding Coast Guard polar icebreaker modernization include the potential impact on U.S. polar missions of the United States currently having no operational heavy polar icebreakers; the numbers and capabilities of polar icebreakers the Coast Guard will need in the future; the disposition of Polar Sea following its decommissioning; whether the new polar icebreaker initiated in the FY23013 budget should be funded with incremental funding (as proposed in the Coast Guard’s Five Year Capital Investment Plan) or full funding in a single year, as required under the executive branch’s full funding policy; whether new polar icebreakers should be funded entirely in the Coast Guard budget, or partly or entirely in some other part of the federal budget, such as the Department of Defense (DOD) budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget, or both; whether to provide future icebreaking capability through construction of new ships or service life extensions of existing polar icebreakers; and whether future polar icebreakers should be acquired through a traditional acquisition or a leasing arrangement.
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