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Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman to undergo $5.1B mid-life overhaul

J.D. Simkins · Defense News
Published 1 Oct 2026, 2:03 am·7 d ago·1 min read
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The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is slated to undergo a massive overhaul designed to prepare the hulking vessel for the second half of its service life. The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a $5.1 billion fixed-ceiling incentive contract with HII to complete the carrier’s mid-life overhaul at Virginia’s Newport News Shipbuilding. The refueling and complex overhaul, or RCOH, comprises approximately one-third of the maintenance and modernization a carrier will undergo during its service life, according to the announcement . The RCOH process on Truman will “include refueling the ship’s…

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