The keel for CVN 79 was laid in August 2015. ![]() ![]() It also received a $3.35bn contract for the ship’s detailed design and construction in June 2015. Newport News was awarded a $407m contract extension for the preparation work on the CVN 79 ship in March 2013 and a $1.29bn extension in March 2014. The carrier will undergo outfitting and testing at HHI Newport News shipyard’s Pier 3 ahead of its scheduled delivery. In May 2011, the US Navy announced that the carrier would be called the USS John F Kennedy.Ĭonstruction of CVN 79 began in February 2011 and its keel was laid in July 2015. Northrop Grumman was awarded a planning and design contract for the second carrier, CVN 79, in November 2006. The contract covers execution planning for the repair and alteration requirements of the ship’s planned incremental availability. Newport News won a contract to support further repair work on the lead ship. The CVN 78 returned to Newport News for post-delivery works in July 2018. Anchor testing on board the carrier was completed in June 2014, while the US navy conducted EMALS testing on CVN 78 in May 2015. Both the launch and first voyage of the ship took place in November 2013. The CVN 78 aircraft carrier was installed with four 30-tonne (t) bronze propellers in October 2013. A $5.1bn contract for the detailed design and construction was awarded to Newport News in September 2008. The department also provided $559m to prepare for the carrier construction and continue the design programme on the ship’s propulsion system.ĬVN 78’s first steel was cut in August 2005. ![]() ![]() The US Department of Defense awarded Northrop Grumman Newport News in Virginia a $107.6m contract in July 2003 and $1.39bn contract in May 2004. Gerald R Ford class vessel development details The vessel is scheduled for delivery to the navy in July 2025, while further ships of the class Enterprise and Doris Miller are expected to be delivered in March 2028 and February 2032, respectively.ĬVN 78 replaced USS Enterprise (CVN 65), which was decommissioned after more than five decades of active service in 2017. The second carrier, USS John F Kennedy (CVN 79), was christened and launched in December 2019.
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