Carrier John F. Kennedy Delivery Delayed 2 Years, Fleet Will Drop to 10 Carriers For

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Carrier John F. Kennedy Delivery Delayed 2 Years, Fleet Will Drop to 10 Carriers For 1 Year https://news.usni.org/2025/07/07/carrier...for-1-year

Typical military procurement as each year is more money for the builder and MIC... Then when delivered they will still find things that need to be fixed with large sums of money..

This story has been updated to include a statement from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding.
The next Ford-class aircraft carrier is facing a two-year delay that will leave the Navy with ten carriers for about a year, USNI News has learned.
The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) will now deliver in March 2027, according to the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget justification documents. The carrier was supposed to deliver this month, according to last year’s budget plans.
“The CVN 79 delivery date shifted from July 2025 to March 2027 (preliminary acceptance TBD) to support completion of Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) certification and continued Advanced Weapons Elevator (AWE) work,” reads the latest FY 2026 shipbuilding budget book.
Those two technologies – the system used to catch aircraft landing on the carrier’s deck and the weapons elevators that move ordnance through the ship – are new systems incorporated into the Ford class. A spokesperson for General Atomics, which makes the AAG, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The Navy is exploring opportunities for preliminary acceptance of the vessel prior to formal delivery and is coordinating closely with stakeholders to ensure the fastest possible transition to fleet operations and a combat-capable carrier,” a Navy spokesperson told USNI News in a statement.
A spokesperson for HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, which builds the carriers, said the company is applying lessons from building the lead ship to the successive ships in the class.

[Orby]

The whole MIC over here in the UK is just the same, a complete scam artist trick to steal our taxes and fund a very shady group of directors. They p*ss in the same pot as yours in the United States I guess. When supplying the UK MOD you sell on to a middle man company first then they sell it on to Bae Systems prior to supplying the MOD. I can't remember if it was a hacksaw it was something similar that was purchased from a builders merchant, but the middle man company simply moved the decimal point one place to the right before supplying the same item to Bae Systems. That came from the horses mouth btw, an employee giving us an example of the corruption, we used to deliver to in the supply chain. Makes one wonder how much could be saved if say a credible company like Nissan were to take on supplying the MOD, the whole sector is scandalous and totally out of control here in the UK. Everything that the government including the military procures goes up at the final end multiple times from the original quotation. All those figures on military spending don't show the reality of what we get on the ground at all and should be treated with a massive grain of salt when comparing to the Wests competitors.