U.S. Coast Guard Fact Sheet

FY 2025 President’s Budget

View the Coast Guard’s 2025 Budget Overview and

FY 2025 Congressional Justification document at: https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

Overview: The FY 2025 President’s 

Budget requests $13.8 billion for the 

Coast Guard, including $12.3 billion in 

discretionary funding, to generate 

sustained capability and resilience while 

building the Coast Guard of the future to 

ensure the Service has the assets, systems, 

infrastructure, and support needed to 

advance the Nation’s interests and 

support our workforce across the globe. 

Budget Highlights & Priorities:

 Build the Coast Guard of the Future –

The Service is steadfast in our commitment to 

ensure the Service has the capable, modern assets 

its workforce needs to meet the unprecedented 

growth in demand for Coast Guard services. The 

Service is making critical investments in the 

Offshore Patrol Cutter, Waterways Commerce 

Cutter (WCC), and the MH-60T fleet, and furthering 

C5ISR capability. Additionally, as the Service 

deploys larger and more capable assets, resilient 

recapitalization projects, such as piers and 

waterside support facilities, are vital to mission 

success. 

 Deliver Assets & Capabilities to the Fleet – In FY 2025, 

the Coast Guard will accept delivery of more capable, 

modernized assets, and the FY 2025 Budget provides 

the resources to operate and maintain these new 

assets. 

 Enhance Support for the Maritime Community – 

The FY 2025 Budget enhances the Service’s 

stewardship role by augmenting investigatory capacity 

for serious crimes in the commercial maritime 

community funding skilled investigators and lawyers, 

and transforming the mariner credentialing program to 

support significant changes to regulations, policies, and 

procedures which supplement the credentialing system 

replacement.

 Increase Meaningful Presence in the Indo-Pacific – The FY 2025 Budget provides $263M to expand Coast 

Guard operations in the Indo-Pacific along three primary lines of effort: Increased Presence, Maritime 

Governance, and Meaningful Engagements. This investment will enable the Service to transition from episodic 

to persistent presence in the region. 

Total Budget 

Request — 

$13,784,974

Dollars in 

Thousands

Net Discretionary Funding — $12,319,547 

 

• 84.9% — Operations & Support (O&S) 

• 12.7% — Procurement, Construction, and 

Improvements (PC&I)

• 2.3% — Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health 

Care Fund (MERHCF)

• 0.1% Research & Development (R&D)

Mandatory, Fees, & Trust Funds — $1,461,427

 

The first Offshore Patrol Cutter, CGC Argus, launched in 2023.

Indo-Pacific Support Cutter CGC Harriet Lane arrives in 

American Samoa.
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FY 2025 President’s Budget

View the Coast Guard’s 2025 Budget Overview and

FY 2025 Congressional Justification document at: https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

Generate Sustained Capability & Resilience (O&S): 

In addition to continuing to sustain strides made in 

recent years to grow and support a resilient workforce, 

the Coast Guard’s FY 2025 O&S funds will further the 

following critical initiatives:

Deliver Assets & Capabilities to the Fleet 

 $40M for personnel and operations and maintenance 

sustainment funding for new cutters, boats, aircraft, and 

capabilities. These funds include operations, maintenance, 

crew, and mission support elements for six Fast Response 

Cutters; shoreside maintenance and support personnel for 

Offshore Patrol Cutters #3 and 4; crew for Waterways 

Commerce Cutter #1; funds to support four hyperbaric 

recompression chambers; and crew, operations, maintenance 

for four MH-60T helicopters and eight Maritime Security 

Response Team boats.

 $10 million for the operations and maintenance of newly 

acquired or recapitalized shore facilities in Puerto Rico, 

Florida, New York, 

and Maryland. 

Enhance Support for the Maritime Community

 $1.8M to field the necessary investigators and legal personnel to 

improve the Coast Guard’s ability to combat sexual misconduct, and 

behaviors that enable it, in the maritime community and safeguard the 

MTS.

 $4.8M to support the transformation of the Mariner Credentialing 

Program by closing gaps in credentialing application processing, exam 

development, course provision, and fraud oversight, increasing 

efficiency in credential issuance and supporting the professional 

mariner community. 

Increase Meaningful Indo-Pacific Engagement 

 $21M for Fast Response Cutter mission support 

personnel, a Marine Transportation System (MTS) 

Assessment Team to support regional economic prosperity, 

a Maritime Engagement Team focused on bolstering 

partner-nation capacity, and regional maritime advisors, 

liaison officers, attachés, legal support, and foreign 

engagement personnel strategically stationed to increase 

regional engagement. 

O&S — 

$10,466,283

Dollars in Thousands

Military Personnel — $5,506,664

Field Operations — $4,521,115 

Mission Support — $438,504

An MH-60T on a mission near Kodiak.

A Coast Guard inspector ensures the safe 

conduct of professional mariners during a 

safety exam.

The crew of the CGC Frederick Hatch welcomes officials of 

the Philippines.
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FY 2025 President’s Budget

View the Coast Guard’s 2025 Budget Overview and

FY 2025 Congressional Justification document at: https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

Build the Coast Guard of the Future (PC&I): 

 $1.1 billion to recapitalize legacy surface assets 

and make capital improvements to extend the 

service life of cutters and boats, including: $216 

million for production of two Fast Response 

Cutters for the Indo-Pacific; $530 million for 

construction of the seventh OPC and long-lead 

time materials for the eighth OPC; $135 million 

for the WCC including program management and 

production activities; $148 million for In-Service 

Vessel Sustainment activities on the 47’ motor- life boat, 

270’ Medium Endurance Cutter, CGC Healy, 175’ buoy 

tender, and 418’ National Security Cutter (NSC); and $7 

million to support post-delivery activities and program 

management for the eleventh NSC. 

 $206 million to recapitalize and sustain fixed and 

rotary-wing aircraft, including: $168M for sustainment 

and growth of the MH-60T helicopter fleet; $15M for 

program management for the HC-130J acquisition; $1M 

for installation of small unmanned aircraft systems for 

the National Security Cutter fleet. 

 $166 million for shore infrastructure improvements to 

support new acquisitions and the execution of Coast Guard 

operations, including: infrastructure improvements at Base Charleston, new facility construction at Sector 

Lower Mississippi River, and Forward Operating Locations in support of the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United 

States. 

PC&I — 

$1,564,650

Dollars in 

Thousands

Vessels — $1,050,300

Aircraft — $205,900

Shore and ATON —$166,750

Other — $141,700

The Coast Guard breaks ground at Base Charleston, the 

Coast Guard’s hub for Atlantic Area operations. 

An HC-130 takes off in Alaska.
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FY 2025 President’s Budget

View the Coast Guard’s 2025 Budget Overview and

FY 2025 Congressional Justification document at: https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

 

Appropriation Summary

FY 2023 Enacted FY 2025 Request

Operations & Support $9,700,478 $10,466,283

Military Personnel $5,054,656 $5,506,664

Mission Support $426,418 $438,504

Field Operations $4,219,404 $4,521,115

 Surface, Air, & Shore Operations $3,057,071 $3,207,551

 Command, Control, & Comms $1,162,333 $1,313,564

Procurement, Construction, & Improvements $1,669,650 $1,564,650

Vessels $917,500 $1,050,300

Aircraft $238,000 $205,900

Other Acquisition Programs $99,310 $141,700

Shore Facilities & Aids to Navigation $414,840 $166,750

Research & Development $7,476 $6,763

Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund $252,887 $281,851

Subtotal Discretionary – Appropriation $11,630,491 $12,319,547

Subtotal Discretionary – Offsetting Fee $4,000 $4,000

Retired Pay $2,044,414 $1,210,840

Boat Safety $132,442 $146,723

Maritime Oil Spill Program $101,000 $101,000

Funds $6,864 $6,864

Subtotal Mandatory Appropriation $2,280,720 $1,461,427

Total $13,915,211 $13,784,974

The crew of the CGC Healy, the Coast Guard’s only icebreaker specifically designed for Arctic research, works with 

the Office of Naval Research to place scientific equipment in the Arctic Ocean Basin.