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Saturday, December 02, 2006

CVN 21 carrier design passes halfway point

The U.S. Navy has approved continued funding for the design of its next-generation aircraft carrier, which has passed the halfway point.

Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract modification worth $860.6 million for the CVN 21 program, which will lead to a new class of carrier to take the Navy deep into the 21st Century.

"We are making good progress on the design," Northrop Vice President Mike Shawcross said from the Newport News shipyard. "We're more than 50 percent complete with the overall design. This contract modification will carry us through 2007 to the next major milestone when we will establish the construction contract for the first ship in the class, CVN 78."

"CVN 21" refers to "21st Century" and by no means to the old USS Boxer, which bore that number in the years after World War II. Old salts from that era would hardly recognize the newer CVN 21.

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