The following is the Jan. 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: ...

Kennedy, is currently being fitted out while both CVN 80 and CVN 81 ... The Ford-class is most assuredly the world’s finest aircraft carrier. Costing $13 billion per unit, the Ford-class ...

“Their legacies will endure through these aircraft carriers, which serve as formidable ... An artist’s graphic showing what the CVN-80 is expected to look like once she joins the fleet.

Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former Presidents ... Kennedy (CVN 79), future USS Enterprise (CVN 80), and future USS Doris Miller (CVN 81). Other recent presidents have naval ...

President Joe Biden said that the next two Ford-class aircraft carriers ... strategy to purchase the carriers, like the service did for the future USS Enterprise (CVN-80) and USS Doris Miller ...

Of course, the naming of warships, and especially aircraft carriers­, ­hasn't been without controversy. The choice of name for the seventh Nimitz-class carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74 ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.