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CVN-81
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Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $800.5M |
| FY25 | $674.9M |
| FY26 | $1.62B |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $1.29B | $1.05B | $800.5M | ||
| Enacted | – | $1.05B | $800.5M | $674.9M | |
| Request | – | – | $800.5M | $721.0M | $1.62B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — CVN-81
To provide credible, sustainable, independent forward presence during peacetime without access to land bases; operate as the cornerstone of a joint and/or allied maritime expeditionary force in response to crisis; and carry the war to the enemy through joint multi-mission offensive operations. The Navy designed the FORD Class aircraft carrier with the warfighting capability essential for the 21st century, and the flexibility and resilience to rapidly adapt to emerging threats. The Ford class incorporates advances in technology such as a new reactor plant, propulsion system, electric plant, Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), machinery control, and integrated warfare systems that increase lethality, while lowering life cycle costs through reductions in maintenance and manning requirements. Increased Service Life Allowances (SLA) for weight and stability enable future modernization and the ability to adapt to new missions over the ship's 50-year life cycle. CVN 80 and CVN 81 were awarded under a two-ship buy. CVN 81 is a separate contract line item under the same contract as CVN 80, which allows discrete hull costs to be captured. The CVN 80/81 construction contract is a Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target) (FPIF) contract type that limits the Navy's liability and incentivizes the shipyard's best performance. The contract language guarantees a single technical baseline for both ships, which allows the shipyard to re-use engineering rollover products, minimize changes between the two ships and leverages economic order quantities for equipment and material procurement.
Justification
No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $800.5M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $674.9M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.62B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $1.62B |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
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| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $5.80B | $800.5M | $674.9M | $1.62B | $1.62B |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| CURTISS-WRIGHT ELECTRO-MECHANICAL CORPORATION | N0001922C0003 | high |
| GENERAL ATOMICS | N0001922C0033 | high |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002416C2116 | high |
| KATO ENGINEERING INC. | N0001923C0040 | high |
Contractor concentration
High-confidence award links only, pooled across ingested years. The index uses positive obligations; program obligations are net of deobligations. The figures over every published link, including medium-confidence ones, are in the downloadable warehouse, not on this page — why.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not CVN-81. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.
Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,938 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
Correction
2 claims removed: one cited a source the site could not resolve; one stated a figure, year, recipient or lobbying filer its sources do not support.
What it is
- CVN-81 is a Ford-class aircraft carrier being built under the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account.
- The program's mission is to provide credible, sustainable, independent forward presence during peacetime without access to land bases; to operate as the cornerstone of a joint and/or allied maritime expeditionary force in response to crisis; and to carry the war to the enemy through joint multi-mission offensive operations.
- The Ford-class carrier incorporates advances in technology such as a new reactor plant, propulsion system, electric plant, Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), machinery control, and integrated warfare systems intended to increase lethality while lowering life-cycle costs through reductions in maintenance and manning requirements.
- CVN 80 and CVN 81 were awarded under a two-ship buy, with CVN 81 as a separate contract line item under the same contract as CVN 80, allowing discrete hull costs to be captured.
- The CVN 80/81 construction contract is a Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target) contract type intended to limit the Navy's liability and incentivize the shipyard's best performance, with a single technical baseline for both ships that lets the shipyard re-use engineering products and leverage economic order quantities for equipment and material.
Why it matters
- For fiscal year 2026, the Navy requested about $1.62 billion (1,622,935 in USD thousands) for CVN-81, a discretionary request under the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account.
- That FY2026 request roughly doubles the program's FY2024 actual spending of about $800 million (800,492 in USD thousands).
- In between, Congress enacted about $675 million (674,930 in USD thousands) for CVN-81 in FY2025.
- Justification documents show that all prior-year funding for the line item totaled about $5,803.675 million, indicating a multi-year investment already made in the ship.
- The FY2026 base request for the line item is about $1,622.935 million, matching the total FY2026 request.
Key players
- The program is managed by the Navy (organization code N).
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O503
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O502
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O514
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.