The Government Accountability Office issued a report this week predicting that the cost of the Navy’s first of the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN-78) of aircraft carriers will further rise from the current estimate of $12.9 billion and says the service is using funding maneuvers to mask the full cost of building the ship. The GAO said the Navy is planning to defer work on the ship until after it is delivered in March 2016, when it could use a…
