Now with that said more will be revealed. Ford has just entered a maintenance availability period after extended deployment. Maintenance lasting a few months to a year. She will probably get numerous upgrades and fixes. Laundry Room probably top on the list after the fire. This will be an important maintenance period learning what new bells and whistles worked and what did not. Certainly the design of the duct work for the laundry room did not.

If her maintenance expenses become classified -problem but not necessarily with the catapults. LCS had its maintenance and repair expenses classified . Supposedly a cheap build with ballooning maintenance and repair costs that only the contractor or sub-contractor could handle. Reason why most LCSs sit at pier side. Doubtful that they will allow the Ford to sit at pier side with Nimitz being decommissioned .

After CVN-83 it is possible that The Navy moves on in design taking the best of the Ford design and leaving the rest. No funds have been allocated beyond CVN 83.