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NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING, Va. \u2014 As the U.S. Navy urges Congress to buy its next two aircraft carriers in a single contract, as it did for the most recent two, the service and manufacturer HII say the two-carrier approach has kept CVNs 80 and 81 on time and budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite record-setting inflation levels, HII already has on contract more than 80% of material for the future Enterprise (CVN-80) and 65% of material for the future Doris Miller (CVN-81), shielding the Navy from soaring costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Placing orders for two ships shortly after the contract was signed in January 2019 also meant many lower-level vendors had a backlog of work going into the COVID-19 pandemic, giving them stability when many companies had to lay off workers or shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And new digital shipbuilding efforts and an improved manufacturing strategy informed by lessons learned on USS Gerald R. Ford and the future John F. Kennedy are translating into saved time and money. Doris Miller may cost as much as 40% less than Ford did in same-year dollars, Capt. Brian Metcalf, the Navy\u2019s program manager for new aircraft carrier construction, told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, according to Navy and HII program officials, is a solid reason to buy the next two aircraft carriers in their proposed 2-3-4 plan: two carriers, with three years of advanced procurement funding, with the carriers spaced four years apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HII\u2019s Newport News Shipbuilding and Navy officials spoke to reporters ahead of the keel laying ceremony for the Enterprise \u2014 a celebration marking the start of ship construction, as the first major piece of the ship\u2019s bottom is lifted into the dry dock where the ship will be built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Kastner, HII\u2019s president and chief executive, told reporters the two-carrier buy for Enterprise and Doris Miler \u201cjust makes perfect sense\u201d due to buying material in larger quantities, planning smoother construction schedules, predicting labor and capital improvement needs and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy projected it would save $4 billion<\/a> across the two ships due solely to the two-ship contract structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kastner said inflation that has surged since that contract has made the approach even more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were able to place the vast majority of the orders for 81 before that inflation \u2014 so just smart buying by the Navy and the nation and HII, a good strategy to get that that ship underway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Enterprise (CVN-80) unit undergoes construction inside a Newport News Shipbuilding facility. HII photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brian Fields, the vice president of CVN 80 and 81 programs at Newport News Shipbuilding, told reporters the two-ship approach \u201callows us to keep our workforce stable and allows our industrial partners to keep their factories open and stable, keep hot production lines going, and provide the best chance to meet schedules and budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metcalf said the Navy is working internally on a pitch for the next two-ship buy. The Navy\u2019s 30-year shipbuilding plan notes a decision by the Pentagon and Congress must be made no later than fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early talks with Congress, he said, \u201cwe\u2019ve sent them several scenarios. The scenario that we believe is optimal is two ships every eight years, on four-year centers,\u201d meaning four years between each ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the advanced procurement funding, typically we\u2019ve gotten two years. We\u2019ve learned now that we probably need about three years,\u201d Metcalf added. \u201cLead times have gone up nationwide \u2014 if you order something, that takes a lot longer than it used to to get here. That\u2019s not untrue here in the shipyard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of that pitch for the upcoming CVNs 82 and 83 comes down to the health of the supply base, which Kastner called the biggest challenge to the program because there are so many vendors who are the sole suppliers of the product they manufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Giannini, the chairman of the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition, told reporters at the media event the group surveyed about 158 of its 2,000 suppliers in February, and 90% responded that a seven-year center between aircraft carriers would be extremely difficult for their company and workforce. He said 88% responded that six-year centers would be extremely difficult, and 61% said five-year centers would be a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first three ships of the Ford class of aircraft carriers were bought on five-year centers, but the program office and industrial base are pushing for four-year centers for future carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver 50% more of the material is placed on [CVN-]81 than it was on [CVN-]80\u2033 at a similar stage, Metcalf said. \u201cThat advantage to the industrial base, to companies spread all over the country, is huge. They\u2019ve got back orders, they can hire, they can plan capital investments in their particular facilities. It\u2019s a security for the American workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metcalf noted the first-in-class Gerald R. Ford will go on its first deployment this fall, making it more critical to protect the industrial base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat same vendor base that\u2019s supplying the equipment on 80 and 81 is spooling up to answer the demand signal from an in-service ship,\u201d Metcalf said. \u201cAs things break, or as maintenance happens, that all goes into the planning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new way to build carriers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In addition to buying Enterprise and Doris Miller differently, Newport News Shipbuilding is also building them in a new way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerald R. Ford was designed completely digitally, with 3D product models rather than paper drawings. But for Ford and John F. Kennedy, the yard then printed out paper work instructions for the workforce to use as they manufactured parts and built the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Enterprise, not a single paper work instruction has been printed \u2014 builders carry laptops or tablets, giving them access to much more information and helping them move faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gives our shipbuilders the opportunity to understand visually what is it that they\u2019re supposed to be doing,\u201d Fields said. \u201cWith the amount of new shipbuilders that we\u2019re bringing into the company now and over the next five or 10 years, we see that their time to proficiency is collapsing. We\u2019re able to give them harder jobs without the same oversight because they know what\u2019s being asked of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fatima Medina, a pipefitter apprentice at Newport News Shipbuilding, shows off her laptop and digital work instructions during an Enterprise (CVN-80) keel laying media day on Aug. 26, 2022. (Megan Eckstein\/Staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fatima Medina, a pipefitter apprentice who joined the shipyard after graduating high school in 2020, showed off her ruggedized laptop and digital work instructions during the media event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She displayed a job for installing a section of piping in the jet fuel distribution system \u2014 something that previously could have required numerous papers outlining the complex piping system that would have to be carried to the job site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Medina said she has access to all the reference sheets she could need with her laptop and can view the materials in three dimensions to understand how pieces come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medina, in her first job working with pipes, said her list of materials includes both names and images of materials, helping her find the right pieces and learn the materials faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, she said, when she completes a job, she can use the laptop to call over her foreman, who uses his or her laptop to inspect the job and mark it complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields said \u201cthis is the first time our workforce has electronic access to email and to access information and references. It\u2019s a generational change in the way that we build ships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to leveraging the digital tools, the shipyard also has a new build strategy for Enterprise that pulls more work earlier in the process. Processes that may have taken place after the ship was launched from the dry dock can now happen in the dry dock; those that previously happened in the dry dock may now take place on the final assembly platform on land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields said this is leading to the yard doing more work on land and then doing fewer \u2014 but much larger and more fully outfitted \u2014 lifts of assembled pieces from the ground into the dry dock. Enterprise will have 321 crane lifts into the dry dock, compared to about 370 for Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the digital initiatives, the new build strategy and overall learning from ship to ship, Fields said the yard is seeing about a 10% decrease in man hours on Enterprise compared to JFK, after already seeing an equivalent step-down in man hours from Ford to JFK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields added that, despite the challenges the program faces \u2014 supply chain issues, labor shortages, ongoing absenteeism due to the COVID pandemic and more \u2014 the actual keel laying (as opposed to the ceremonial keel laying on Aug. 27) took place in April, three weeks earlier than planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithout that two-ship buy and without some of the digital initiatives, I think it\u2019s hard to quantify a negative, but I think it would have been a lot more challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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