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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Newport News shipyard gets $504 million more for Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. on Friday received an additional $504.1 million for the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the first ship of a new class of flattops under construction at the Newport News shipyard.

The money, a planned outlay for design and engineering work, brings the total amount Huntington Ingalls has received from the Navy on the ship's construction contract to $6.05 billion, according to government figures.

The Ford, also known as CVN-78, is rising in Dry Dock 12 in the shipyard's northern end. Construction of the ship's structure is about 50 percent complete and the vessel remains on track for a September 2015 delivery, said Mike Shawcross, the shipyard's vice president of engineering for the Ford class and construction chief for the following carrier, the John F. Kennedy.

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