
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Tuesday on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers finds the Navy is continuing to underestimate the cost of these ships past the first vessel.The GAO said while the new carrier class is meant to reduce costs and improve capabilities, the first version costs nearly $2.4 billion more than estimates and the Navy is underestimating the cost of the second ship by up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The original sensitive GAO report…