Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, is urging Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to provide a detailed plan for controlling soaring costs in the multibillion-dollar program to build new aircraft carriers. In the coming weeks, the Navy and shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries "must develop a credible plan to control costs" for the lead ship in the new carrier class, the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), and the following two ships, McCain counsels Mabus in a...
