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  • Due to first of class issues, this Ford is to stay at the dealership into November.

    https://news.usni.org/2016/07/12/cvn...t-class-issues

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    • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
      Due to first of class issues, this Ford is to stay at the dealership into November.[/url]
      Aww maaaaaan...

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      • I'm starting to wonder if Enterprise will beat Ford out of Newport News?

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        • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
          I'm starting to wonder if Enterprise will beat Ford out of Newport News?
          Speaking of which, I wonder what the total value of the materials stripped off the Enterprise came out to be
          “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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          • More bad news for the Navy... 2017

            http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politi...lay/index.html
            Last edited by tbm3fan; 25 Jul 16,, 18:56.

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            • This ship will not deploy before 2020 anyway. Now the cluster F that the JFK (CVN 79) will be is a whole another story! The Navy plans to take delivery of that ship in an incomplete state and to be fitted out on the other side of the James River.

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              • Navy formally exploring two-aircraft carrier block buy for CVN-80 and CVN-81

                Inside the Navy
                8/8/2016

                The Navy is formally investigating the possibility of a two-aircraft carrier block buy -- lashing procurement of CVN-80 and CVN-81 together across more than a decade -- as part of an effort to identify potential options for reducing the total price tag for new Ford-class mega warships, according to the service.

                The Navy outlined this potential option, along with others the service is considering to reduce end-costs of new aircraft carriers within mandated cost caps, in a report to Congress delivered on April 22, according to a service spokeswoman. The substance of the report has not been previously reported.

                The Navy is "exploring potential cost savings associated with a two-ship buy, two-ship material buys, further facility additions and upgrades for CVN 80 and future ships," Naval Sea Systems Command spokeswoman Colleen O'Rourke said in a statement summarizing key points of the report.

                Congress, concerned over the cost growth in the Ford-class aircraft carrier program, set statutory cost caps for the modernization project in fiscal year 2007 -- caps revised most recently in the FY-16 National Defense Authorization Act to $11.3 billion for each follow-on ship in the program.

                The Navy's April report outlined options to deliver follow-on ships, beginning with CVN-79, within the cost cap.
                "Reductions in the end-cost target for CVN-79 can be grouped into two broad categories, improvements in the way the ship is built and removal of capability based on a validated requirements review," O'Rourke said in a statement summarizing the report.

                The Navy estimates CVN-78, the second ship in the Ford class, will require nearly 20 percent fewer man hours to build as a result of improvements to the ship-construction plan, including implementation of cost-reduction initiatives as well as improved strategies for procuring both government- and contract-furnished material, according to the service statement.

                Other factors the Navy estimates will yield lower costs include "sequencing unit construction to maximize the effects of lessons learned, maximizing planned work performed in ships during early construction to increase outfitting levels, incorporating design changes to improve producibility and upgrading facilities," according to O'Rourke.

                The Navy plans for the design of CVN-80 to repeat the design of CVN-79 "with modifications only for significant test and evaluation results," according to the Navy spokeswoman. Design changes might also be considered for cost-reduction initiatives that promise significant savings, safety issues and address obsolescence issues, she added.

                Lawmakers asked the Navy to outline options to contain the price tag for the CVN-80's plans to less than half of CVN-79's. To accomplish such a reduction, according to the Navy, the service might scrap select affordability initiatives, "remove build-strategy improvements, or eliminate design changes for reproducibility," according to O'Rourke. These options, however, could impair efforts to drive down ship costs.

                The Navy believes two other options could reduce the costs of the CVN-80's plans: the aforementioned two-ship buy with CVN-81 and transitioning to digital shipbuilding, according to O'Rourke.

                "A two-ship buy allows for design stability, lower material costs through economic order quantity procurements, and a reduction in engineering hours," according to O'Rourke. "With the incorporation of digital shipbuilding, production personnel would be able to use three-dimensional models to construct ship systems, therefore eliminating the need to create two-dimensional drawings and thereby reducing plans costs."

                The Navy would require additional funding to implement digital shipbuilding, she said.




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                • Posted: August 10, 2016 4:27 PM

                  Pier-Side Testing on Gerald R. Ford Nears Completion

                  FordNEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has successfully tested the Precision Aircraft Landing System (PALS) on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the company said in an Aug. 10 release.

                  PALS is a radar system that provides final approach and landing guidance to aircraft to ensure successful landings on the flight deck. A specially instrumented F/A-18 Super Hornet flew within about 500 feet of Gerald R. Ford 10 times during the testing, which verifies the proper functionality, alignment and operation of the PALS equipment and its subsystems.

                  While the PALS technology is used on Nimitz-class carriers, Gerald R. Ford’s system is upgraded and modified for the new class’ island location and other design and technology changes. The dual-band radar, also new to the Ford class, supported testing of the PALS.

                  “Aircraft landing precision is at the core of an aircraft carrier’s mission,” said Rolf Bartschi, Newport News’ vice president, CVN 78 carrier construction. “This test program ensures that the systems are working together as they were designed to work before we take the ship to sea.”
                  http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stor...0810-ford.html

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                  • Video: a Super Hornet testing the PALS system.
                    http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.co...-r-ford-cvn-78

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                    • The Navy really needs to get their S together. The scuttlebutt on the street is that sailors managed to burn up a diesel generator aboard the Ford. The prescription is to drydock, cut her hull open and drag the generator out. Newport News does not have a drydock currently that can handle her, so at some point soon she will have to be towed to Portsmouth for the work to be conducted.

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                      • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                        The Navy really needs to get their S together. The scuttlebutt on the street is that sailors managed to burn up a diesel generator aboard the Ford. The prescription is to drydock, cut her hull open and drag the generator out. Newport News does not have a drydock currently that can handle her, so at some point soon she will have to be towed to Portsmouth for the work to be conducted.
                        :o

                        What's with the current generation of new ships?!

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                        • Originally posted by jlvfr View Post
                          :o

                          What's with the current generation of new ships?!
                          Perhaps, the sailors are spending too much time in gender diversity training and not learning about lubrication of actual metallic machinery?
                          Last edited by surfgun; 02 Oct 16,, 20:45.

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                          • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                            Perhaps, the sailors are spending too much time in gender diversity training and not learning about lubrication of actual metallic machinery?
                            Ouch !!!! A generatorectomy!! That doesn't even look "RIGHT" when you read it!

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                            • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                              Perhaps, the sailors are spending too much time in gender diversity training and not learning about lubrication of actual metallic machinery?
                              lol, sad but probably true...

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                              • AAG trap, at Lakehurst, NJ.

                                https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4obNg2sszq0

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