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Lessons Learned Building the Ford-Class Carrier

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Defense News: Exclusive interview with Rolf Bartschi, vice president of the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Carrier Construction at Newport News Shipbuilding a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. 

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