“In the America, the very time-consuming piece is going inside the ship and dropping lighting and ventilation and piping wiring and everything down far enough so you can install new material and weld it in place and then restore all that stuff,” Rear Adm. David Gale, program executive officer for ships, said during the roundtable.
About a dozen modifications are needed for the ships to house the -F-35Bs, he says.
10 to 1 says the cost of these mods don't appear in any announced budgetary figures. A little bit more here, a little bit more there...