
The U.S. Navy has amassed more than 60,000 lessons learned from the construction of its first Ford-class aircraft carrier, and that information is helping to streamline the production of subsequent carriers, according to a program official.The lessons from the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) range from “an understanding of the materials required to build the ship, which lets us go buy those materials more effectively and efficiently,” to “changes in the way the shops are made up,” said Capt. Doug…