Huntington Ingalls Industries' Scholarship Fund has helped three from Newport News Shipbuilding test engineer Richard Neville's family go to college now the latest, Olivia, is returning the favor by joining the yard.
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The US Navy s brand-new aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford will be return to port this summer.
But before the supercarrier ties up in Newport News, it will go through full-ship shock trials,
Those tests involve setting off explosives next to the ship to see if vibrations cause problems.
The US Navy s brand new aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) will be returning to Newport News this summer.
Much like how an automobile needs to go in for routine maintenance, so too will the Navy s largest and most expensive warship.
Coming soon: USS Gerald R. Ford shock trials
By DAVE RESS | Daily Press | Published: May 23, 2021 (Tribune News Service) For the past 1½ years, on 18 trips off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, sailors and shipyard workers from Newport News have prepped the Navy’s newest carrier for deployment 27% over its original budget and years behind schedule. The costliest single item on the Department of Defense’s shopping list, the USS Gerald R Ford has been on a fast track to launch a series of new technologies intended to boost the Navy’s striking power for at least the next 50 years. It is a fast track that started two decades ago and has seen delays installing key components of the ship, as on-shore testing revealed unexpected problems that required hundreds of millions of dollars to fix and that forced workers at Newport News Shipbuilding to redo finished parts of the 1,092-foot long carrier, hundreds of pages of government budget documents, Navy assessments, oversight reports and Congressional hearings show.
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Though they were once competitors in building submarines, Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat are now collaborating with the Navy in design and engineering work for the nuclear fleet.