US Navy's most expensive warship just got even pricier
Zachary Cohen
By Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 4:06 PM ET, Tue May 15, 2018
Washington (CNN)The US Navy's most expensive warship just got even pricier as the service says it needs to spend an additional $120 million on the new USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to "correct deficiencies identified during testing" -- an amount that will cause the ship's overall cost to exceed a $12.9 billion cap set by Congress.
While the Ford was commissioned into active duty last July, the Navy is notifying lawmakers that more money is needed to fix propulsion components that were damaged during training this year and to address issues with the carrier's Advanced Weapons Elevators, according to Colleen E. O'Rourke, a spokesperson for Naval Sea Systems Command.
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