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The Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog, concluded in a recent assessment of the Ford that the Navy is struggling to demonstrate the reliability of key features such as the electromagnetic launch system and the advanced arresting gear, or AAG.

“The Post Shakedown Availability is planned for 12 months, with the critical path being Advanced Weapons Elevator construction and Advanced Arresting Gear water twister upgrades,” Couch added.

A January report from the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, which advises the secretary of Defense, singled out the "poor or unknown reliability of the newly designed catapults" and other cutting-edge systems such as the advanced aircraft arresting gear to stop planes when they land — also built by General Atomics — a dual-band radar system, and a new type of elevator that moves weapons.

Its "critical technologies," largely the electromagnetic launch system, aircraft arresting gear and radar, drove about 40% of the cost increases, according to a report released in June by the U.S.

On his bragging list: The carrier features a new reactor plant, propulsion system, electric plant, electromagnetic aircraft launch system, advanced aircraft arresting gear, dual band radar and integrated warfare systems.