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Navy And HII Working To Finish Carrier Elevators, Two Carrier Buy Expected To Cost $24 Billion Total

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Navy And HII Working To Finish Carrier Elevators, Two Carrier Buy Expected To Cost $24 Billion Total
An F/A-18F Super Hornet, launches off USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) flight deck during flight operations March 29, 2020 while underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

A top official at Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said the company is working with the Navy to finish remaining challenges to complete and turn over the delay-plagued weapons elevators for the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier. Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), told reporters on Thursday that the 11 advanced weapons elevators (AWE) that will be on each Ford-class carriers are one of the most advanced technologies being incorporated into them. “One is turned over to…

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