Posted on 02/25/2012 7:20:13 PM PST by U-238
The first in the Navy’s new class of supercarriers is likely to end up costing a lot more than anticipated:
The U.S. Navy has estimated a worst-case cost overrun of as much as $1.1 billion for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the service’s most expensive warship.
The carrier is being built by Huntington Ingalls Industries under a cost-plus, incentive-fee contract in which the Navy pays for most of the overruns. Even so, the service’s efforts to control expenses may put the company’s $579.2 million profit at risk, according to the Navy.
A review of the carrier’s rising costs began in August after the Navy’s program manager indicated that the “most likely” overrun had risen to $884.7 million, or about 17 percent over the contract’s target price of $5.16 billion. That’s up from a $650 million overrun estimated in April, according to internal Navy figures made available to Bloomberg News. The worst-case assessment would be about 21 percent over the target.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/cost-overruns-on-uss-gerald-ford-could-top-1-billion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB%29
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Wait until you see the USS Whitney Houston. It's the Navy's new class of self-destroyer.
LOL. Maybe we can promote Bobby Brown as captain of the ship.
That’s two Solyndra’s.
That is true. Excellent Post!!!
More campaign cash for Obama.
I wonder if they're going to base the Murtha in Okinawa?
Mark
The downside (according to a documentary I saw about the technology) is that if the em cats don't work out, there's NO WAY to retrofit the ship to use steam cats, and they'll have to scrap the entire project!
Mark
They are all good advances, that which I have read about, like electrodynamic catapults. What I have not heard about lately are the new defensive weapons, such as a rumored laser and rail gun. Who knows how far away and how much over budget that stuff is. But it has to start somewhere, and part of a carrier budget seems a good place..
There’s not going to be any sort of fielded railgun before 2020, and no free electron laser till 2025. At best.
You are correct from what I have read in other articles. It did succeed in launching an F-35 last November. But the future is in EMALS. It places less stress on the aircraft.
The EM catapults are in pretty good shape and are going to work.
I know the DDX is in trouble with weapon system delays, last I heard. Sucks to be out of NAVAIR and inside info.
Overruns? Whydya think it was called “Gerry Ford”?
Use an Nuclear Acclerated Generator for a laser or railgun on a ship or a plane. 2-3 of these generators will probably sink a ship.According to DARPA,NAG technology could produce 100,000 times more power than conventional nuclear technology. This is not a guess; it has been well established in experiments.
This is not a problem. The Navy is going to save a chunk of change on the aircraft. /s
Last conventional carrier built not the last to serve and the boat had a long, slow, painful death. Kitty Hawk remained in service until 12 May 2009 and was commissioned over seven years prior to the Kennedy.
According to the John Kennedy(CV-67) website it says that she was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier.
http://navysite.de/cvn/cv67.htm
But you are correct. I amend my last statement.
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