Newport News Shipbuilding estimates a two-ship carrier buy would save the Navy roughly $1.6 billion, according to the company's president. Jennifer Boykin told reporters today during the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space symposium the cost savings estimate "falls into a few buckets." The first is the time between building CVN-80 and CVN-81 is shorter and having that information allows the company to forecast its labor requirement, she said. Another bucket is labor efficiency because the shipbuilder will do all of the...
