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Friday, December 19, 2008

U.S. Navy confirms delay on Bush

In a departure from long-standing naval tradition, the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush will not be complete before its Jan. 10 commissioning in Norfolk, the Navy confirmed on Thursday.

The $6.2 billion nuclear-powered ship being built at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard is about 97 percent complete, but it won't be delivered to the Navy until early 2009, after its commissioning, the company and the Navy said.

Yard President C. Michael Petters told the Daily Press in a recent interview that the carrier was "probably at least another month away" from completion, but the Navy didn't confirm the delay until Thursday, waiting to release the information to the news media until after it notified members of Congress.

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