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Navy League 2021: Ford provides US Navy lessons for other programmes

by Michael Fabey

The growing costs and broken schedules the US Navy (USN) experienced in developing and building aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) have provided lessons for other ship programmes, said Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations.

“One is that when you lock in the design, you lock in the design,” Adm Gilday said on 20 July during a Navy League 2021 Sea-Air-Space exposition virtual online “prequel” discussion in advance of the actual exposition, which is scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 August in Maryland.

“One of the things you learned from the Ford

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