The Ford-class aircraft carriers, despite their high cost (around $13 billion per unit) and developmental challenges, ...

As the Nimitz-class carriers retire, fielding their Ford-class replacements in a timely manner is imperative. Delays to several of the U.S. Navy’s upcoming programs continue to plague the service.

The delivery of the US Navy’s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is likely to be delayed beyond its July 2025 contract date. -Navy officials cited “critical path ...

The Nimitz would be replaced in the fleet by the Kennedy, which would move from Norfolk to Kitsap by 2029. That would give the Navy one Ford-class carrier on each coast. Congress has authorized ...

The ship is nearing completion at Newport News Shipbuilding and is scheduled to join the fleet later this year.

When the Truman was operating against the Houthis, it “conducted 670 strikes and intercepted around 160 enemy drones and ...

Efforts to preserve either as a floating museum also fell through, likely because the layout of the carriers could reveal critical details to the Nimitz-class and Gerald R. Ford-class carriers now ...

Congress continued to spend on major defense platforms, such as the F-22 aircraft and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers ... have enough industrywide capacity to make a single Ford-class aircraft carrier ...