Surface Forces Logistics Center SFLC
The SFLC product lines provide total logistics and engineering support for the naval assets that fall within the product line.
At a glance
- Operator
- U.S. Coast Guard — Surface Forces Logistics Center (under the Assistant Commandant for Engineering & Logistics, CG-4)
- Access
- Public
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The Surface Forces Logistics Center (SFLC) is the U.S. Coast Guard's single logistics center for its surface fleet — cutters and boats — providing engineering, supply, depot-level maintenance, and industrial support across the assets' lifecycle. SFLC is organized under the Coast Guard's Assistant Commandant for Engineering & Logistics (CG-4), part of the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, alongside the Coast Guard Yard.
What it is
SFLC is the Coast Guard's centralized surface-asset logistics and engineering organization. It is organized into asset-based product lines, each of which provides total logistics and engineering support — configuration and engineering management, supply support, and depot maintenance planning — for the cutters and boats assigned to it. SFLC also oversees the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland, the service's own shipbuilding and major-repair facility.
Who operates it
SFLC is a U.S. Coast Guard command, organized under the Assistant Commandant for Engineering & Logistics (CG-4) within the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support (DCMS). It is led by a Coast Guard captain and is headquartered at 2401 Hawkins Point Road, Baltimore, MD, co-located with the Coast Guard Yard.
Access
SFLC's public DCMS web pages (mission overview, product-line descriptions, points-of-contact directory, contracting information) are openly accessible with no login. Coast Guard-internal logistics and maintenance-management systems used by SFLC staff and units are separately access-controlled and not part of the public-facing site. Industry partners seeking to do business with SFLC use published contracting/industry-day contacts on the DCMS site rather than a general public account-request process.
How logisticians use it
Coast Guard cutter and boat crews, engineering staff, and program offices work with SFLC product-line managers for supply support, engineering changes, and scheduled depot maintenance on surface assets. SFLC is the surface-fleet counterpart to the sustainment role that NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support and NAVSEA's in-service engineering activities play for the Navy, and to the Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center's role for Coast Guard shore facilities — logisticians researching Coast Guard surface-asset sustainment use SFLC's public pages to identify the correct product line and points of contact for a given cutter or boat class.
Related systems
SFLC sits alongside other Coast Guard DCMS logistics centers (e.g., the Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center for shore facilities) and parallels the Navy's surface-ship logistics organizations (NAVSUP WSS, NAVSEA in-service engineering) in function, though it is a distinct Coast Guard command with its own product-line structure.