Newport News Shipbuilding is making history this year with its development of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, as for the first time, it is building two Gerald R. Ford-class carriers simultaneously ...

Phelan also toured construction progress on two aircraft carriers, including Enterprise (CVN 80) in the dry dock, as well as John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), undergoing final outfitting and testing at NNS.

Summary and Key Points: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was a revolutionary nuclear ... at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Virginia. Her construction was a monumental task, involving ...

Following his Navy career, he was elected to the U.S. Senate representing his home state of Alabama in 1980.Shipbuilders transferred DDG 129 from land to the company’s dry dock using translation ...

Ford (CVN-78), the John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the Enterprise (CVN-80), the Doris Miller (CVN-81 ... The West Coast has no dry dock that can support the maintenance of the Ford-class carriers ...

The valve manifold assembly is about 5 ft (1.5 m) long and weighs 1,000 lb (453.6 kg) and was installed in a pump room on Gerald R Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), HII said in a ...

Finally, we completed dry dock work and undocked USS Zumwalt DDG 1000 in December ... have been turned over to the test team. And CVN 80 Enterprise was moved for the first time enabling ...

Last week, U.S. shipbuilder HII reported that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division received the new mid-hull section of the USS Enterprise (CVN 80), which belongs ... carriers simultaneously ...

Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), allowing the shipyard to begin the concurrent assembly of two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers in the same dry dock. The evolution began Thursday ...