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Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress CVN-78, CVN-79, and CVN-80 are the first three ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN- 78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). CVN-78 was procured in FY2008 and is being funded with congressionally authorized four-year incremental funding in FY2008-FY2011. The Navy’s proposed FY2011 budget estimated the ship’s procurement cost at $11,531.0 million (i.e., about $11.5 billion) in then-year dollars, and requested $1,731.3 million in procurement funding as the final increment to complete this estimated procurement cost.