The USS John C. Stennis plane service moved out of dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding and is 65% via its mid-life refueling and complicated overhaul, officers introduced.
Commissioned in 1995, the Nimitz-class service entered the Newport News shipyard in Might 2021 for upkeep. Plane carriers are overhauled at round 25 years to increase their lifespans to a cumulative 50 years. The overhauls incorporate upgrades to propulsion tools, infrastructure and digital programs.
“When John C. Stennis redelivers, she’ll be probably the most technologically superior Nimitz-class plane service within the Navy,” Rear Adm. Casey J. Moton, program government officer for plane carriers, stated Tuesday in a information launch.
The ship is scheduled for redelivery to the Navy in October 2026, the service stated.
The Stennis is the seventh service to endure an overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding. Pre-pandemic, overhauls took about 4 years to finish. However industrial base challenges brought on by the pandemic pushed the newest overhaul of the USS George Washington to greater than six years.
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The Stennis, Moton stated, has additionally skilled industrial base and workforce challenges however the Navy is working with its {industry} companions to speed up problem-solving and manufacturing.
The Navy-industry group is leveraging classes realized from the Washington’s refueling and overhaul, added Capt. Mark Johnson, in-service plane service program supervisor. The shipbuilding group is bettering the extent of assist to employees by utilizing new digital administration instruments and processes.
Newport News Shipbuilding reported Monday the Stennis has been moved to the shipyard’s outfitting berth, the place shipyard employees and crew members will full the set up and testing of main elements and fight assist programs. This era will even see the advance of the crew’s dwelling areas and consuming areas.
“Our focus stays steadfast to get our ship again into the combat and to foster the skilled and private growth of our sailors,” Capt. J. Patrick Thompson III, the ship’s commanding officer, stated within the shipyard announcement.
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Caitlyn Burchett, caitlyn.burchett@virginiamedia.com
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