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Navy/USMC

Navy Weighing Fate of Advanced Arresting Gear For Aircraft Carriers

By Marc Selinger

Monday, July 11th, 2016

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Navy Weighing Fate of Advanced Arresting Gear For Aircraft Carriers

A composite photo illustration representing the Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79). Illustration: Huntington Ingalls.

The U.S. Navy says it plans to decide by December whether to proceed with its troubled Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) program or pick an alternative landing system for future Ford-class aircraft carriers.Responding to a draft report by the Department of Defense Inspector General (IG), Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley wrote that his office is studying the cost and time needed to equip the CVN-79, the next Ford-class carrier to be built, with an Mk 7 arresting system from the existing…

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