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 ...
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
The Navy vessels will be the first to bear the names of former presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.
The Kennedy namesake will live on in the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier. Expected to be delivered to the Navy in the summer of 2025, the second-in-class PCU John F. Kennedy touts a ...