Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Croft | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 03.01.2024
Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, Navy deputy surgeon general and deputy chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, talks with Lt. Shannon Taylor, assigned to the aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) during a tour of John F. Kennedy’s medical and dental facilities. John F. Kennedy is the second Ford-class aircraft carrier and is under construction at HII’s Newport News......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Croft | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 03.01.2024
Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, Navy deputy surgeon general and deputy chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, talks with Lt. Calli Marando, assigned to the aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) during a tour of John F. Kennedy’s medical and dental facilities. John F. Kennedy is the second Ford-class aircraft carrier and is under construction at HII’s Newport News......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Croft | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 03.01.2024
Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, Navy deputy surgeon general and deputy chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, talks with Chief Hospital Corpsman Michael Leonard, assigned to the aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) during a tour of John F. Kennedy’s medical and dental facilities. John F. Kennedy is the second Ford-class aircraft carrier and is under construction at......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Slavicek | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 02.14.2024
Newport News, V.A. (Feb. 14, 2024) – Lt. Cmdr. Katie Greiner discusses a checklist with an HII contractor in the Integrated Catapult Control System (ICCS) during the first “dead-load” testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). In this phase of testing, large, wheeled, car-like structures of graduated weights up to 80,000 pounds to simulate the weight of actual......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Slavicek | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 02.14.2024
240212-N-DE539-1114 Newport News, V.A. (Feb. 14, 2024) – Sailors assigned to the Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) work alongside HII and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) counterparts during the first “dead-load” testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). In this phase of testing, large, wheeled, car-like structures of graduated weights up to......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Slavicek | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 09.28.2023
Newport News, V.A. (Sept. 28, 2023) – Capt. Hannah A. Kriewaldt, (left), commanding officer, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Newport News, Rear Adm. Tom J. Anderson, acting commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (middle), and Capt. Colin P. Day, commanding officer, the aircraft carrier, Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) (right), discuss the ship’s construction during a......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Slavicek | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 09.28.2023
Newport News, V.A. (Sept. 28, 2023) – Rear Adm. Tom J. Anderson, acting commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (righ), and Capt. Colin P. Day, commanding officer, the aircraft carrier, Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) (left), discuss the ship’s construction during a shipyard production progress and familiarization visit. John F. Kennedy is the second Ford-class aircraft......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Slavicek | PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) | 09.28.2023
Newport News, V.A. (Sept. 28, 2023) – Rear Adm. Tom J. Anderson, acting commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and a member of HII’s construction leadership team discuss the construction of aircraft carrier, Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy’s (CVN 79), during a shipyard production progress and familiarization visit. John F. Kennedy is the second Ford-class aircraft carrier and is......
