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inOversight issues for Congress for the CVN-78 program for FY2019 include the following:
- whether to approve, reject, or modify the Navy’s FY2020 procurement funding request for the CVN-78 program;
- the date for achieving the Navy’s 12-ship force-level goal for aircraft carriers;
- cost growth in the CVN-78 program, Navy efforts to stem that growth, and Navy efforts to manage costs so as to stay within the program’s cost caps;
- Navy efforts to complete the construction, testing, and certification of the weapon elevators on CVN-78;
- additional CVN-78 program issues that were raised in a December 2018 report from the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E);
- whether to conduct the shock trial for the CVN-78 class in the near term, on the lead ship in the class, or years later, on the second ship in the class; and
- whether the Navy should shift at some point from procuring large-deck, nuclear-powered carriers like the CVN-78 class to procuring smaller aircraft carriers.