
The U.S. Navy released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding to help define possible cost savings when purchasing CVN-80 and 81 as a two-ship buyThe service said it has been working with HII for several months to estimate the total cost savings the Navy could achieve by combining the procurement of the next two Gerald R. Ford-class carriers.Assistant Secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition (RDA) James Geurts told the House…