The Navy's $13 billion supercarrier still doesn't have working weapons elevators and aircraft launching systems
Jared Keller
Updated:
Jun 4, 2020 10:10 AM EDT
Original:
Jun 3, 2020
The USS Gerald R. Ford may be on a steady march towards its first formal deployment, but the much-vaunted supercarrier is still facing major technical problems in two of its most critical systems, according to a new assessment from the Government Accountability Office.
According to the GAO report, the Navy reported that all 12 of the Ford class's critical technologies were fully mature, up from nine technologies that were mature when the service took delivery of the new supercarrier in May 2017.
Although the Navy "assessed the advanced weapons elevators as mature, it ended the first post-delivery maintenance period in October 2019 with only four of the 11 elevators certified to operate," the GAO said.
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