Shipbuilding costs, efficiencies led Navy to propose retiring carrier

Higher shipbuilding costs, some caused by a low rate of production, as well as new force structure methods and technology led the U.S. Navy to propose retiring the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and making cutbacks in ship construction, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark told Senate...

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