Second Gerald Ford class super aircraft carrier on track for delivery to US ... - Next Big Future
The keel for the US Navy's second Gerald Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the John F Kennedy, has been laid at a ceremony in Newport News, Virginia. More than 450 of the ship's 1100 structural units have already been constructed since the first cut of steel in 2010. The first vessel of the class, the Gerald R Ford (CVN78), will be the first US aircraft carrier to be entirely electrically powered. The Gerald R Ford is due to be delivered to the US Navy in 2016. The US Navy Fiscal Year 2016 plans that include speeding up construction of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) without changing its delivery date, hurrying to start... Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley told the HASC seapower and projection forces subcommittee that current budget plans speed up Kennedy construction at Newport News Shipbuilding but would then include a gap in work before installing electronics... Though the Navy is always looking for opportunities to increase efficiency by moving up schedule, as may be the case with Kennedy, it abandoned its plans to get an early start on the third AFSB (float Forward Staging Base), which is a variant of... Source: nextbigfuture.com
