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Thursday, April 01, 2010

USS Enterprise delayed again; cost of maintenance balloons 44.5 percent

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)The Navy this week agreed to spend an additional $13.2 million for maintenance on the USS Enterprise, pushing the cost to repair the fleet's oldest aircraft carrier to nearly $655 million — 44.5 percent higher than the original estimate.

It's the 11th time in 21 months the service has had to throw more money at the 49-year-old carrier to prepare it for two final deployments before a scheduled 2012 decommissioning.

At Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard since May 2008, the aging Enterprise is in its final dry-dock maintenance, originally scheduled to last 16 months and cost $453.3 million.

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