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Newport News —100 Years (continued) crane towering 23 stories over a 1,600-foot drydock, the most exten- sive such facility in the Western

Hemisphere, and an 11-acre, all- enclosed steel production facility.

Many operations in this new com- plex are automated, from steel han- dling and fabrication to the erection and transportation of huge subas- semblies. The first ships to be built in the North Yard were two LNG carriers. These were followed by the largest tankers ever built in the

U.S., two 390,000-dwt ultra large crude carriers.

Advance Technology-Savings

The three Nimitz Class aircraft carriers currently under construc- tion in the North Yard are being built using state-of-the-art modular construction. Previous carriers had been built using small subassem- blies and then outfitting after launching, a painstaking process that requried thousands of tons of material to be brought aboard the ship and custom-fitted. The mod- ular construction being used now involves the joining together of huge subassemblies weighing as much as 900 tons, each of which is complete- ly outfitted before installation. This technology is being used in the con-

U.S. Navy Ships Currently Under Contract To Newport News Shipbuilding

Navy No. Name Approx. Contract

Contract $ Del'y Date

CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt 1,300,000,000 9/86

CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln 1,550,000,000 12/89

CVN-73 George Washington 1,550,000,000 12/91

SSN-721 Chicago 225,000,000 6/86

SSN-722 Key West 225,000,000 6/87

SSN-723 Oklahoma City 225,000,000 87

SSN-750 Newport News 278,000,000 87

SSN-753 Unnamed 319,000,000 88

SSN-756, 8-9 Unnamed (3) 779,500,000 89-90

SSN-21 Unnamed 28,900,000* —

TOTAL $6,480,400,000

Design contract

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