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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Congress to Navy: Don't delay carrier construction until analysis

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)Federal lawmakers will require the Navy to complete a detailed risk assessment of slowing aircraft carrier construction to produce a new ship every five years instead of four before it signs off on funding those programs, according to the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill.

Though House and Senate negotiators acknowledged that slowing construction "may be the appropriate course of action" for the Navy, they "are concerned that this decision may not have been made following a rigorous cost-benefit analysis," the bill states.

The nation's carriers, built at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard, were scheduled to be funded every four years, beginning with the Gerald R. Ford. Northrop received a $5.1 billion contract to build that flattop in 2008.

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