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Mike Petters, president, Northrop Grumman Newport News, speaks
to employees and other invited guests during the CVN 21 steel
cut and facilities grand opening ceremony.
(08/11/05)
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Northrop Grumman reached its first construction milestone
in the life of the new-generation aircraft carrier, CVN 21.
The company cut one of the first pieces of steel, a 15-ton
plate for a side shell unit of CVN 78, the first ship of the
CVN 21 program.
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CVN 21 Steel Cut ceremony participants included (from left)
Rear Adm. H. Denby Starling II, commander, naval air force,
U.S. Atlantic Fleet U.S. Navy; Rear Adm. David Architzel,
program executive officer for aircraft carriers, U.S. Navy;
Joe S. Frank, mayor of Newport News; Mike Petters, president,
Northrop Grumman Newport News; Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.-1st
District); Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.-3rd District); and Capt.
Michael E. McMahon, commanding officer, supervisor of shipbuilding,
conversion and repair, Newport News, U.S. Navy.
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Rear Adm. David Architzel, program executive officer for
aircraft carriers, U.S. Navy, was among the ceremony participants
who signed the CVN 78 steel plate before it was cut.
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Design work on the new generation aircraft carrier program,
CVN 21, is underway at Northrop Grumman Newport News with
the full construction contract anticipated in 2007.
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Northrop Grumman Newport News is designing the Gerald
R. Ford class of aircraft carrier using a product model
tool called CATIA, the most technologically advanced system
in use today in the shipbuilding industry.
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Innovations for the Ford class include an enhanced
flight deck with increased sortie rates, improved weapons
movement, a redesigned island, a new nuclear power plant,
allowance for future technologies and reduced manning.
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