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Friday, August 19, 2011

Structural Work on Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Reaches Halfway Point

Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. announced today that the structural production of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has reached 50 percent completion.

The lead ship in the new class of carriers has been under construction at the company's Newport News Shipbuilding division since November 2009. It is on track to meet its scheduled launch in 2013 and delivery to the U.S. Navy in 2015.

Gerald R. Ford is being built using modular construction, a process where smaller sections of the ship are welded together to form large structural units, outfitting is installed, and the large units are lifted into the dry dock. Of the 500 total structural lifts needed to complete the ship, 250 have been accomplished.

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