February 12, 2018

View the Coast Guard’s 2019 Budget Overview and 2017 Performance Highlights document and

FY 2019 Congressional Justification document at: https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

U.S. Coast Guard Fact Sheet

Fiscal Year 2019 President’s Budget

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

2703 Martin Luther King Ave, S.E.

Washington, DC 20953

www.uscg.mil

BACKGROUND: The FY 2019 President’s Budget requests $11.65 billion for the Coast Guard, including $9.70 billion in 

discretionary funding. The Budget sustains the most critical Coast Guard operations and continues our Service’s highest 

priority recapitalization efforts for cutters, boats, aircraft, infrastructure, and other equipment and systems. The Budget 

efficiently allocates resources to optimize performance across all mission programs and activities. 

BUDGET PRIORITIES:

 Provides funding to Invest in the 21st Century Coast Guard—recapitalization and continued investment in our Service’s 

future is a top budget priority in FY 2019. 

 Sustains Mission Excellence and ensures the Coast Guard can conduct today’s highest priority frontline operations in 

support of national priorities.

 Maximizes Value to the Nation by efficiently allocating resources across all mission programs. The Coast Guard continues 

to meet evolving mission requirements and remains a trusted steward of public resources. 

INVEST IN THE 21st CENTURY COAST GUARD: The FY 2019 Budget requests $1.9 billion for Procurement, 

Construction, and Improvements (PC&I). Budget highlights include:

 $1,544 million for vessels, including: $750 million to award a contract for detail design and construction of new polar 

icebreakers, supporting delivery of the first new heavy icebreaker in 2023; $400 million for construction of the second

Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), scheduled for delivery in 2022, as well as long lead time materials for the third OPC; $240 

million for procurement of four Fast Response Cutters (FRC); and $5 million to support acquisition planning activities for 

the Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC), which will replace an obsolete fleet of inland tenders and barges commissioned 

between 1944 and 1990.

 $148 million for aircraft, including: $25 million to support service life extensions for MH-60T helicopters; $20 million for 

H-65 helicopter enhancements/upgrades; $97 million for conversion and sustainment of fixed-wing HC-27J and HC-144A 

aircraft; and $6 million for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).

 $135 million for shore and major systems acquisition infrastructure projects, including funding for: barracks renovations at 

the U.S. Coast Guard Academy; housing construction at the Wailupe Housing Complex, HI; pier and infrastructure 

improvements to support the OPC homeports at San Pedro, CA and Kodiak, AK and the NSC homeport at Charleston, SC; 

and hangar improvements to support HC-130J aircraft at Air Station Barbers Point, HI.

SUSTAIN MISSION EXCELLENCE: The FY 2019 Budget requests $7.8 billion for Operations and Support (O&S) to 

operate and maintain Coast Guard assets, sustain critical frontline operations, and fund pay and benefits for the Coast 

Guard’s active duty, civilian, and reserve workforces. Budget highlights include:

 $101 million to maintain parity with DOD for military pay and fund increases for military allowances and health care, as 

well as civilian benefits and retirement contributions.

 $63 million for new assets and infrastructure including: operations and maintenance of NSC #8 and FRCs #31-36; cutter 

crews for FRCs #34-38; shore-side maintenance personnel to support NSCs #7-8 and FRCs #31-38; maintenance support 

personnel for the C-27J fleet; and operations, maintenance, and flight crews for HC-130J aircraft #10-11.

 $49 million to annualize FY 2018 funding for new assets and initiatives.

MAXIMIZE VALUE TO THE NATION: In FY 2019, the Coast Guard will make sound, risk-based decisions to efficiently 

allocate resources while investing in critical recapitalization initiatives. Budget highlights include:

 $36 million to replace aircraft equipment and systems necessary to comply with FAA 2020 airspace requirements, to address

obsolete communications and connectivity equipment on cutters and aircraft, and to maintain mission essential system 

information technology infrastructure to improve cyber security of Coast Guard networks.

 $7 million to build capacity within the Coast Guard’s professional acquisition workforce to support new and ongoing 

recapitalization projects and programs.

 $32 million in savings associated with the elimination of the Crew Rotation Concept (CRC) pilot program, which 

standardizes NSC fleet operations and avoids costly and ineffective implementations in two other NSC homeports.

 $16 million in savings associated with the planned decommissioning of four HC-130H aircraft. These assets are being 

replaced by new, more capable HC-130J aircraft.