Future Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy Stern Placed

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (June 22, 2017) A crane moves the lower stern into place on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) build at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. The ship grew about 70 feet in length with the addition of the lower stern. The second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier is now 50 percent structurally complete. (U.S. Navy video courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries/Released)