In January 2024, CVN 78 and her crew returned to Naval Station Norfolk, the aircraft carrier's homeport. As of July 2024, USS Gerald R. Ford is homeported alongside 44 other ships, including the ...

Ford (CVN-78) to conduct their first landings at sea ... on the face of somebody who’s just landed on an aircraft carrier at night for the first time – we didn’t see that last night ...

Ford (CVN 78) during a change of command ceremony in the ship’s hangar bay, May 12. Gerald R. Ford, a first-in-class nuclear aircraft carrier and flagship of Carrier Strike Group Twelve ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HII) said that the company's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division placed an 825-ton superlift on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78 ...

Ford (CVN 78) nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The company's shipbuilding sector will perform the work, which includes ship construction, ship design activities, engineering services, procurement of ...

Ford (CVN 78) serves as the leading nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. Named for the nation's 38th president, USS Gerald R. Ford is the largest warship in the world, surpassing ...

A Wheeling native now has command of the world’s largest aircraft carrier. Capt. David Skarosi relieved Capt. Rick Burgess as commanding officer of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during a ...

A Brief Note on CVN 78 USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the first new design for an aircraft carrier since USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The ship is equipped with two newly-designed reactors and has 250% ...