The Navy’s Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Nightmare: $13.3 Billion and Counting

The Navy’s Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Nightmare: $13.3 Billion and Counting

Summary and Key Points: The construction of the U.S. Navy’s $13.3 billion Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier faced significant setbacks, highlighting issues with new technologies like malfunctioning toilets, problematic Advanced Weapons Elevators (AWEs), and the Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS). -Cost overruns and delays emerged from installing unproven technologies without sufficient testing, leading to congressional […] The p…