USS Theodore Roosevelt gets $2.4 billion refit

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28 August 2009

The US Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
 

August 26: The US Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Work will include refuelling the ship's nuclear reactors, modernising more than 2,300 compartments and hundreds of systems, as well upgrading the flight deck, catapults and communications ‘island’.

Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding yard in Newport News, Virginia will undertake the work as soon as the carrier arrives in port, expected in the next few weeks. The process will take three years to complete will be the ship's one and only refuelling and complex overhaul in its projected 50-year life span. Launched in 1984, USS Theodore Roosevelt is the fourth of the Nimitz class carriers to undergo this major life-cycle milestone.

"During this large and complex project, we'll touch almost every part of the ship," said Jim Hughes from Northrop Grumman. “We’ll increase and modernise Roosevelt's capabilities and return her to the fleet for another 25 years of service."

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