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Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress
Appendix B. Funding Levels in PC&I Account
This appendix provides background information on funding levels in the Coast Guard's
Procurement, Construction, and Improvements (PC&I) account.44
Overview
As shown in Table B-i, the FY20 13 budget submission programmed an average of about $1.5
billion per year in the PC&I account. As also shown in the table, the FY2014-FY2016 budget
submissions reduced that figure to between $1 billion and $1.2 billion per year.Table B- I. Funding in PC&I Account in FY20 I3-FY2O 19 Budgets
Figures in millions of dollars, rounded to nearest tenth
% change
compared
to avg. for
FY13
Budget FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY11 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 Avg. budget
FY13 1,217.3 1,429.5 1,619.9 1,643.8 1,722.0 1,526.5-
FY14 951.1 1,195.7 901.0 1,024.8 1,030.3 1,020.6 -33.1%
FY1I5 1,084.2 1,103.0 1,1I28.9 1,1I80.4 1,228.7 1,1I45.0 -25.0%
FY1I6 1,0 17.3 1,1I25.3 1,255.7 1,20 1.0 1,294.6 1,178.8 -22.8%
FY17 1,136.8 1,259.6 1,339.9 1,560.5 1,840.8 1,427.5 -6.5%
FY1l8 1,203.7 1,360.9 1,602.7 1,810.6 1,687.5 1,533.1 +0.4%
FY I 9 1,886.8 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Source: Table prepared by CRS based on Coast Guard FY20 I3-FY2O 19 budget submissions.
The Coast Guard has testified that funding the PC&I account at a level of about $1 billion to $1.2
billion per year would make it difficult to fund various Coast Guard acquisition projects,
including a new polar icebreaker and improvements to Coast Guard shore installations. Coast
Guard plans call for procuring OPCs at an eventual rate of two per year. If each OPC costs
roughly $400 million, procuring two OPCs per year in an PC&I account of about $1 billion to
$1.2 billion per year, as programmed under the FY2014-FY2016 budget submissions, would
leave about $200 million to $400 million per year for all other PC&I-funded programs.
Since 2017, Coast Guard officials have been stating more regularly what they stated only
infrequently in earlier years: that executing the Coast Guard's various acquisition programs fully
and on a timely basis would require the PC&I account to be funded in coming years at a level of
about $2 billion per year. Statements from Coast Guard officials on this issue in past years have
sometimes put this figure as high as about $2.5 billion per year.
44 Prior to FY2019, the PC&I account was called the Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements (AC&I) account.Congressional Research Service 28
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