Northrop Grumman to build new Ford carrier

[unhappycamper]

Northrop Grumman to build new Ford carrier
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jan 16, 2009 16:21:55 EST

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News has been awarded a $374 million contract for preliminary work on the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier.

The nation’s only maker of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers already has received a $5.1 billion contract to build the lead ship in the next generation of aircraft carriers.

The contract announced Thursday is for design, planning and procurement of the second carrier in the Ford class.

On Saturday, the 10th and final Nimitz-class carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, was commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk. The former president and his son, President George W. Bush, attended the commissioning of the Northrop Grumman ship.


Article at: http://navytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_ford_carriers_va_011509w/%2e


uhc comment: Note that the $5.1 billion already paid is less than half the cost.

[BlooInBloo]

1. High-level info on design and costs....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford_class_aircraft_carrier

[Turbineguy]

2. For 11 billion

the US could build 100 merchant cargo ships to show the flag and the ships would pay for themselves.

Just sayin'