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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive

ENTERPRISE (CVN-80)

Operational and Building Data
Gerald R. Ford Class Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier

Awarded
Laid down
Christened
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Stricken

31 January 2019
27 August 2022

2028

Builder: Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, VA

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced, 1 December 2012, CVN-80 would be named Enterprise
to honor the previous eight American warships of that name.

According to a DoD press release issued on 23 May 2016, the Navy awarded Newport News Shipbuilding
a $152-miliion contract to begin advance planning activities. On 31 January 2017, $25.5 million were
added as a contract modification.

Enterprise was procured in FY2018. The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’
Newport News Shipbuilding a contract for two aircraft carriers, CVN-80 and CVN-81,
the first of its kind since the 1980s. The company announced, 31 January 2019, that it received a
contract modification valued at $15.2 billion for the detail design and construction of these two ships.
(Read “Navy Awards Contract for Construction
of Two Carriers”, at the Navy website.)

HII-NNS laid the keel block of CVN-80 on 5 April 2022, when the ship was about 13% done.

Enterprise will replace USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
upon entering the fleet. As of September 2022, Enterprise was scheduled to be delivered
to the Navy in March 2028.

Specifications
General Characteristics
(As of December 2005)
Displacement: approximately 100,000 long tons (approximately 101,600 metric tons) full load
Dimensions: 1,092′ x 134′ (flight deck, 256′) / 332.8 x 40.8 (flight deck, 78) meters
Power plant: 2 nuclear reactors; 4 shafts
Speed: 30+ knots
Armament: Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile; Rolling Airframe Missile; CIWS
Aircraft: 75+
Crew: 4,660 (ship, air wing and staff)