Title 14, Coast GuardRelease 119-102

§1181 Special Appropriations

Title 14 › SUBTITLE I — ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 11 — ACQUISITIONS › SUBCHAPTER V — COAST GUARD MISSION READINESS › § 1181

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Provides $24,593,500,000 to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2025. The money comes from the Treasury and must stay available until September 30, 2029. The Coast Guard can use faster buying and contracting steps even if some normal budget rules would slow that down. The funds are for buying and keeping ships, aircraft, unmanned systems, equipment, and for building and improving shore facilities and resilience for missions like monitoring, search and rescue, interdiction, protecting approaches, and navigational safety. The money is split into specific amounts: $1,142,500,000 for fixed-wing aircraft and related items; $2,283,000,000 for rotary-wing aircraft; $266,000,000 for long-range unmanned aircraft and base stations; $4,300,000,000 for Offshore Patrol Cutters; $1,000,000,000 for Fast Response Cutters; $4,300,000,000 for Polar Security Cutters; $3,500,000,000 for Arctic Security Cutters; $816,000,000 for light and medium icebreaking cutters from shipyards with proven performance; $162,000,000 for Waterways Commerce Cutters; $4,379,000,000 for shore facility design, planning, construction, and improvements, including $425,000,000 for enlisted boot camp barracks and training center work, $500,000,000 for Coast Guard Yard work and a floating drydock, up to $2,729,500,000 for homeports and hangars for the cutters and aircraft above, and $300,000,000 to homeport the polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025; $2,200,000,000 for depot maintenance of aircraft, cutters, and shore facilities and for command, control, communications, computer, and cyber maintenance; $170,000,000 to improve maritime domain awareness at the border, ports, land sites, and in cyber; and $75,000,000 to buy or contract autonomous maritime systems.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §1181

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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $24,593,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1105(a) and section 1131, 1132, 1133, and 1156, to use expedited processes to procure or acquire new operational assets and systems, to maintain existing assets and systems, to design, construct, plan, engineer, and improve necessary shore infrastructure, and to enhance operational resilience for monitoring, search and rescue, interdiction, hardening of maritime approaches, and navigational safety, of which—
(1)$1,142,500,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of fixed-wing aircraft, equipment related to such aircraft and training simulators and program management for such aircraft, to provide for security of the maritime border;
(2)$2,283,000,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of rotary-wing aircraft, equipment related to such aircraft and training simulators and program management for such aircraft, to provide for security of the maritime border;
(3)$266,000,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of long-range unmanned aircraft and base stations, equipment related to such aircraft and base stations, and program management for such aircraft and base stations, to provide for security of the maritime border;
(4)$4,300,000,000 is provided for procurement of Offshore Patrol Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to provide operational presence and security of the maritime border and for interdiction of persons and controlled substances;
(5)$1,000,000,000 is provided for procurement of Fast Response Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to provide operational presence and security of the maritime border and for interdiction of persons and controlled substances;
(6)$4,300,000,000 is provided for procurement of Polar Security Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to ensure timely presence of the Coast Guard in the Arctic and Antarctic regions;
(7)$3,500,000,000 is provided for procurement of Arctic Security Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to ensure timely presence of the Coast Guard in the Arctic and Antarctic regions;
(8)$816,000,000 is provided for procurement of light and medium icebreaking cutters, and equipment relating to such cutters, from shipyards that have demonstrated success in the cost-effective application of design standards and in delivering, on schedule and within budget, vessels of a size and tonnage that are not less than the size and tonnage of the cutters described in this paragraph, and for program management for such cutters, to expand domestic icebreaking capacity;
(9)$162,000,000 is provided for procurement of Waterways Commerce Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to support aids to navigation, waterways and coastal security, and search and rescue in inland waterways;
(10)$4,379,000,000 is provided for design, planning, engineering, recapitalization, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of, and program management for, shore facilities, of which—
(A)$425,000,000 is provided for design, planning, engineering, construction of, and program management for—
(i)the enlisted boot camp barracks and multi-use training center; and
(ii)other related facilities at the enlisted boot camp;
(B)$500,000,000 is provided for—
(i)construction, improvement, and dredging at the Coast Guard Yard; and
(ii)acquisition of a floating drydock for the Coast Guard Yard;
(C)not more than $2,729,500,000 is provided for homeports and hangars for cutters and aircraft for which funds are appropriated under paragraph (1) through (9); and
(D)$300,000,000 is provided for homeporting of the existing polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025;
(11)$2,200,000,000 is provided for aviation, cutter, and shore facility depot maintenance and maintenance of command, control, communication, computer, and cyber assets;
(12)$170,000,000 is provided for improving maritime domain awareness on the maritime border, at United States ports, at land-based facilities and in the cyber domain; and
(13)$75,000,000 is provided to contract the services of, acquire, or procure autonomous maritime systems.

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Citation

14 U.S.C. § 1181

Title 14, Coast Guard

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102