Navy Awards $5 Billion Contract for Future Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford

Navy Awards $5 Billion Contract for Future Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford

WASHINGTON – The Navy Sept. 10 awarded a $5.1 billion contract to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News for the detail design and construction of the future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the lead ship in the Navy’s newest class of aircraft carrier.

Under this contract, Northrop Grumman will complete the detail design and construction of CVN 78, which includes engineering; integration; related development efforts including drawing and work package development; advanced planning; design weight estimate; lifecycle support products and related logistics data; production planning; test and evaluation; further definition of initiatives to reduce CVN 78 class total ownership costs; and data necessary to support construction of CVN 78.

“This is an exciting day for the CVN 78 Program Office and for the Navy,” said Capt. Brian Antonio, CVN 78 program manager in the Program Executive Office for Aircraft Carriers. “When USS Gerald R. Ford is delivered to the fleet in 2015, it will bring superior warfighting capability and meaningful quality-of-life improvements for Sailors, in addition to greatly reduced lifecycle costs. Most important, CVN 78-class carriers will be able to adapt and evolve to defend this nation and our allies well into the 21st century.”

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