The story of the Ford is a story about how to build weapons it’s a story about the future of the fleet that more than 80,000 Hampton Roads-based sailors serve it’s a story about thousands of jobs at Newport News Shipbuilding and tens of thousands more at some 2,000 companies that supply material to the shipyard.Īnd ultimately, it is about striking a balance between wanting the latest, best weapons and shopping carefully. And, it adds: “Ford class aircraft carriers will serve as the centerpiece of strike group operations through the 21st century, supporting national strategic objectives,” the command said. “While it is not unusual for the first ship of a class to have unexpected challenges and delays,” the Ford is performing as planned, the command says. That cost, along with the explosive growth of drones over the two decades it was conceptualized, designed, built and commissioned, has rekindled decades-old questions about the need for all the big carriers the Navy operates.įrom the Navy’s point of view, the Ford “is a weapons system equipped with state of the art technology that is functioning as designed and is set up to provide a return on investment measured in billions of dollars across 5 decades,” the Naval Sea Systems Command says. “They’re doing good work … but it cost more than it needed to.”
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