U.S. Navy asking Huntington Ingalls Industries on savings with two-ship carrier purchase

In a bid to save taxpayer’s money, the U.S. Navy has given Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News a Request for Proposal (RFP) to buy aircraft carriers CVN 80 and CVN 81 together at one go.

USS Gerald R. Ford under construction, 20130916
By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua Wahl (PCU Facebook Page of USS Gerald R. Ford) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The sailing branch said it did that in the 1980s for the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and achieved significant savings. It hopes to repeat it again.