Nimitz-class

Ford Carrier Strike Group Maximizes New CVN’s Gear, Design In Final Test Event Before Shock Trials

Fire Controlman 2nd Class Anthony Anadon, from Stockton, California, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN-78) combat systems department, prepares an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) for upload into a missile launcher during an ammunition onload on April 9, 2021. US Navy Photo

Asked how Ford, the strike group and the air wing used CSSQT and the rest of the recent at-sea period to highlight the strengths of the new class of carriers, Ford commanding officer Capt. Paul Lanzilotta told USNI News...

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/26/ford-carrier-strike-group-maximizes-new-cvns-gear-design-in-final-test-event-before-shock-trials

Ford Carrier Strike Group Maximizes New CVN’s Gear, Design In Final Test Event Before Shock Trials

Fire Controlman 2nd Class Anthony Anadon, from Stockton, California, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN-78) combat systems department, prepares an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) for upload into a missile launcher during an ammunition onload on April 9, 2021. US Navy Photo

Asked how Ford, the strike group and the air wing used CSSQT and the rest of the recent at-sea period to highlight the strengths of the new class of carriers, Ford commanding officer Capt. Paul Lanzilotta told USNI News...

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/26/ford-carrier-strike-group-maximizes-new-cvns-gear-design-in-final-test-event-before-shock-trials

Navy’s Infamous INSURV Reports Set to End This Year Unless Congress Acts

Poster for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) 2016. US Navy Photo

A long-standing independent report on the health of the U.S. Navy is set to end this year unless Congress acts, USNI News has learned.

The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), founded by Battle of Mobile winner Adm. David Farragut in 1868 and cemented into law by Congress in 1882, is in charge of assessing ship readiness. The inspection body this month released its latest report, which could be...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/11/navys-infamous-insurv-reports-set-to-end-this-year-unless-congress-acts

INSURV Inspections Found Lower Material Readiness on Surface Ships, Subs

Rear Adm. Chris Engdahl, President of the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), and then Capt. Kyle Higgins, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), converse in the hangar bay aboard Ike in 2019. US Navy Photo

Navy ship readiness has trended down over the past three years, with many ship systems on surface ships and submarines, in particular, showing lower readiness scores in Fiscal Year 2020 compared to the recent average, according to the Board of...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/03/insurv-inspections-found-lower-material-readiness-on-surface-ships-subs

Light Carrier Studies Already Underway As Navy Considers Role for CVLs in Future Fleet

An MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Eightballers” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8, flies next to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) while they transit the Pacific Ocean Feb. 15, 2020. Operating as an Expeditionary Strike Force, the Navy-Marine Corps team integrates carrier strike group combat power with the flexible capability of an expeditionary strike group to provide the fleet commander with a capable, credible...

https://news.usni.org/2021/02/01/light-carrier-studies-already-underway-as-navy-considers-role-for-cvls-in-future-fleet

No Margin Left: Overworked Carrier Force Struggles to Maintain Deployments After Decades of Overuse

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) pier side in 2017. US Navy Photo

Navy aircraft carrier operations are up 40 percent this year over last year, even as the service has fewer available for tasking due to maintenance and acquisition challenges.

From January through Oct. 31, U.S. carriers had spent a combined total of 855 days at sea – 258 days more than all of 2019, according to a USNI News analysis of carrier deployments over the last five years.

That heavy carrier usage makes 2020 the busiest year for...

https://news.usni.org/2020/11/12/no-margin-left-overworked-carrier-force-struggles-to-maintain-deployments-after-decades-of-overuse

Navy Mulling Extending Service Lives of Nimitz-class Carriers

Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) conduct a barricade drill on Oct. 28, 2019. US Navy Photo

The Navy is considering an extension of the service lives of the first few aircraft carriers in the Nimitz-class, the head of the service’s carrier program said on Thursday.

The Navy is assessing whether to delay decommissioning timelines for the first few ships in the Nimitz-class, Program Executive Officer for Carriers Rear Adm. James Downey said at a symposium hosted by the...

https://news.usni.org/2020/09/17/navy-mulling-extending-service-lives-of-nimitz-class-carriers

Carrier Vinson Heading to San Diego Ahead of First F-35C Joint Strike Fighter Deployment

Sailors assigned to Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) man the rails on the flight deck of the ship. Vinson departs Naval Base Kitsap – Bremerton, Wash., on Aug. 23, 2020. US Navy Photo

Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) departed Bremerton, Wash., on Sunday bound for its new homeport in San Diego after completing a year and a half of maintenance, the Navy announced.

Part of the 17-month dry dock repair period was to make the carrier ready for the Navy’s first...

Bell-Boeing Delivers First CMV-22B to Navy for COD Mission

First delivered CMV-22B Osprey. Bell-Boeing Photo

The first of a new generation of carrier onboard delivery aircraft delivered to the Navy, the service announced on Friday.

Manufacturer Bell-Boeing turned over a CMV-22B Osprey to the Navy in a ceremony at its Texas assembly facility after four years of design and production.

“There is nothing more important than delivering capabilities to the fleet with speed,” James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and...

https://news.usni.org/2020/02/08/bell-boeing-delivers-first-cmv-22b-to-navy-for-cod-mission

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