Navy To Congress: Here’s Your F-35C Carrier — How Do We Pay For It
The Navy awarded a big contract to modify its newest aircraft carrier -- tossing the ball back to Capitol Hill which demanded the work, but neglected to provide funding.
Navy Rushes To Get F-35s on USS JFK; Other Ford Carriers Wait Their Turn
The service's aircraft carrier boss says the COVID economic slowdown hasn't effected building new carriers -- yet.
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Get USS Kennedy Ready For F-35Cs, Congress Orders Navy
The Navy always planned to add F-35 modifications to its two brand-new aircraft carriers at a later date. But an annoyed Congress wants it done now.
Inhofe: Any Ford Delay Would Present ‘A Dangerous Readiness Gap’
Capitol Hill has some concerns over the state of the Navy's Ford-class aircraft carrier, but the Navy is moving forward with next-generation technology, fixing as it goes.
Pentagon Approves Two-Carrier Buy As Fixes Continue to Navy’s Priciest Ship
Congress is evaluating the proposal to issue a $24 billion contract for the Navy's next two carriers, as the service looks at months of work to fix ongoing problems with the Ford-class's first ship.
Package Deal: Navy Could Save 5-10% Buying Two Carriers
The Navy hasn’t done a two-carrier deal since the Reagan buildup of the 1980s, when the Nimitz-class carriers being built, the state of the industrial base, the size of the budget, and the statutes governing shipbuilding were all very different. So how would it work today?
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Let’s Get Digital: Hondo Geurts Wants Ships For Less $$
SAN DIEGO: Newport News Shipbuilding is reaping “huge savings” on the next Ford-class carrier, the Kennedy, through “creative” use of digital models instead of paper plans, the new head of Navy acquisition told reporters today. It’s an approach that can increase efficiency and reduce costs on all big Navy programs, said assistant secretary James “Hondo” […]
Trump Calls For 12 Carriers, But How Fast Will We Get There?
Speaking today on the hangar deck of the almost-completed aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, President Donald Trump explicitly pledged to build “the 12-carrier Navy we need.” Ever since the USS Enterprise retired in 2012, the Navy has had only 10 aircraft carriers, with the Ford soon to be commissioned as the 11th. On current plans, […]
Navy Commits To High-Tech Catapults, Arresting Gear For All 3 Ford Carriers
WASHINGTON: Despite congressional doubts, years of delays, and almost $5 billion in overruns, the US Navy has now locked in two controversial high-tech systems for all three of its Ford-class supercarriers. First, a week ago, the Navy announced a review of alternative systems had decided to stick with General Atomics’ Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) for […]
Fixing The Ford, Getting Creative With Carriers
This week, the Navy finally announced a delivery date for the long-delayed and $2.4 billion over-budget aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford (CVN-78). “In hindsight,” said Adm. Thomas Moore, head of Naval Sea Systems Command, the Navy should have tested the Ford’s ambitious new systems more extensively on shore before installing them aboard ship. But building a […]
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Congress Makes Navy Sweat On Carriers, UCLASS, LCS, & Cruisers
WASHINGTON: The conference version of the defense policy bill for 2016 puts the Navy on notice in multiple high-priority programs. In three areas — carriers, the UCLASS drone, and LCS — Sen. John McCain‘s tough positions prevailed over the House, albeit with some compromises around the edges. In a fourth — Ticonderoga-class cruisers — it was a House leader, […]
More Ships, More Missiles, Less Waiting: Rep. Forbes Talks 2016 NDAA
CAPITOL HILL: More ships. More weapons. Less waiting. That’s the essential philosophy of Rep. Randy Forbes, chairman of the House subcommittee on seapower. In the draft National Defense Authorization Act headed for mark-up next week, he certainly seems to have gotten his way — on amphibious assault ships, submarines, land-based cruise missiles, and more. “My […]
Tablets & Tomahawks: Navy, Marines Scramble To Innovate
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD: Amidst unabated budget gloom, Navy and Marine leaders aren’t looking for salvation in big new programs. They’re “repurposing and reusing existing capabilities” to get the maximum out of existing hardware for minimum cost. It’s a vision of the future in which a junior Marine Corps officer might call for fire support from a […]
Jet Cars, Radars, & The Ford-Class Carrier
NAVY YARD: At almost $13 billion, the cutting-edge aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford (CVN-78) has become a byword for military overruns. With the Ford‘s cost now stable and the costs of the second ship, Kennedy, coming down, however, the Navy seems convinced it’s got the money problem under control. Now they can talk about the […]