For example, Captain Pete Pagano (USN-Retired) proposed in an August 29 essay published by the Center for International Maritime Security that the Navy build a new class of "sea control ships" based on amphibious assault vessels used to lift Marine expeditionary units. There are several ideas floating around about what a small carrier might look like. Construction of a second Ford-class carrier commenced in 2013. Ford began in 2008 and the ship has now been commissioned. Each successive ship in the Nimitz class was upgraded as new technology became available, but if you want a truly modern ship then you need to start over, and that's what the Navy has done.
Development of the existing carrier fleet began during the 1960s, when manpower was cheap and the information revolution still lay decades in the future. Virtually every feature of the new carriers from their flight decks to their nuclear reactors has been redesigned. Ford - the new carriers will host more aircraft and generate a third more sorties per day while requiring less manpower and greatly boosting on-board generation of electricity.
Called the Ford class - the lead ship is named after President Gerald R.
Navy is building a new class of large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that eventually will replace all ten of the Nimitz-class carriers in the current fleet.
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