Noem cancels ‘wasteful’ shipbuilding contract to ‘protect American taxpayer dollars’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is holding a shipbuilding company accountable for repeatedly failing to meet its deadlines and “delivery agreements.”

Noem announced the partial cancellation of a contract last week with Eastern Shipbuilding Group after the company failed to fulfill four previously agreed-upon orders for Offshore Patrol Cutters, according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security. Only two of the four OPCs were delivered. She canceled the contract because of the company’s inefficiencies, which she said were ineffective use of taxpayer dollars.