House Scrutiny Escalates of Troubled Coast Guard Cutter Program

A House committee is escalating its investigation into a troubled Coast Guard shipbuilding program after accusing a major contractor of failing to turn over records related to years of delays and cost overruns, according to a letter from the panel’s chairman obtained by Bloomberg News.

Andrew Garbarino, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says Eastern Shipbuilding Group missed a January deadline to provide internal documents tied to the Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter program, despite having received almost $1.5 billion in federal funding and delivering no completed ships.

The letter, dated Feb. 5, sets a new ...