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The US Navy may skip an important test so it can get its futuristic new aircraft carrier sooner

June 21, 2017 Business Insider
By: Alex Lockie
Related Expert: Bryan Clark

"Once the Ford comes online you can have the East Coast carriers essentially cover the Middle East with short gaps and have the West Coast carriers fill the gaps in the Pacific while [the carrier] Reagan is in its spring maintenance availability," Bryan Clark, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments told Defense News.