Instead, the next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, CVN-80, would also be named the USS Enterprise. The forthcoming ...
The following is the Jan. 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: ...
Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...
The decommissioning of CVN-65 was not the end of USS Enterprise. CVN-80, the third Ford-class carrier, will bear the name Enterprise and carry on the legacy of these ships in the Navy. Naming this ...
Kennedy, is currently being fitted out while both CVN 80 and CVN 81, the USS Enterprise and USS Doris ... Loaded with new technology like the EMALS catapult system and the AAG arresting gear ...
Bush. They are the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), future USS Enterprise (CVN 80), and future USS Doris Miller (CVN 81). Other recent presidents have naval vessels named after them.
Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN 65) which inactivated in 2012.