{"id":17484,"date":"2025-09-26T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=17484"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:53:42","slug":"birdon-alabama-shipyard-hosts-u-s-coast-guard-leadership-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=17484","title":{"rendered":"Birdon Alabama Shipyard Hosts U.S. Coast Guard Leadership Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Birdon Alabama Shipyard Hosts U.S. Coast Guard Leadership Visit<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>[By: Birdon]<\/p>\n<p>Senior leadership from the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s Surface Acquisitions and Contracting divisions visited <a href=\"http:\/\/birdongroup.com\/\">Birdon\u2019s<\/a> shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, today as part of a Gulf Coast tour focused on the Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation included representatives from the Coast Guard Assistant Commandant \u2013 Surface, Program Executive Office \u2013 SEA, Surface Acquisition Programs and the Office of Contracting and Procurement. During the visit, the group received program updates, met with Birdon\u2019s ship builders and leadership team, and toured the shipyard\u2019s industrial facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis visit was a valuable opportunity to showcase the progress we\u2019ve made and the strength of our relationship with the U.S. Coast Guard,\u201d said Tony Ardito, President of Birdon. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to report that the WCC program remains on budget and on schedule, which is a testament to the dedication of our workforce and the effectiveness of our collaboration with Coast Guard leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just building vessels, we\u2019re building critical capability for the nation,\u201d said Sandra Armstrong, Director of Communications &amp; External Relations. \u201cThis visit reaffirmed the importance of our work and the trust placed in us to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/corporate\/birdon-alabama-shipyard-hosts-u-s-coast-guard-leadership-visit\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birdon Alabama Shipyard Hosts U.S. Coast Guard Leadership Visit [By: Birdon] Senior leadership from the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s Surface Acquisitions and Contracting divisions visited Birdon\u2019s shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, today as part of a Gulf Coast tour focused on the Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program. The delegation included representatives from the Coast Guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-17484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}