Coast Guard Demands $96 Million from Deepwater Team for Faulty Cutters

By Emelie Rutherford / January 7, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Coast Guard has put a dollar figure on the refund it is demanding from an industry team for its work on eight faulty patrol cutters: $96.1 million. The service on Dec. 28 sent a 70-plus page position paper to Integrated Coast Guard Systems -- a Northrop Grumman-Lockheed Martin team that had steered the service's troubled Deepwater modernization program -- detailing its stance in the two sides' dispute over paying for the eight ships. "The Government is seeking $96.1M in...

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