Aircraft Carrier Fleet Services / Refueling and Complex Overhaul
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Newport News is the only shipyard to perform overhaul and refueling work on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, a three-year project that includes the refueling of both the ship's reactors, as well as significant modernization work. The sector completed the overhaul and refueling of the USS Nimitz in 2001 and the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2005. The USS Carl Vinson arrived for its once-in-a-lifetime refueling and complex overhaul on November 11, 2005 and was delivered July 2009.