Seeing a carrier alongside in Portsmouth for an upkeep period usually involves seeing that same carrier with some BFO tenting on deck for flightdeck coating prep and application. Happened frequently with CVS and will happen for QEC as required. I'd suspect that it's less to do with late recognition, more to do with the last instance of preparation and application. It's a newly developed coating system and applying it at large scale will be a learning exercise to start with. Even mature coating systems like camrex (which btw forms a fair amount of QEC FD coating) are not immune from application defects.....