191206-N-ZI768-1090 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Dec. 6, 2019) Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, speaks to Sailors aboard the future Ford-class aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) flight deck at Newport News Shipyard. John F. Kennedy will be christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) division, in Newport News, Virginia on Dec. 7, 2019. Kennedy is the second ship in the next-generation Gerald R. Ford-class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and will be followed by the future USS Enterprise (CVN 80) and the future unnamed CVN 81. The aircraft carrier is named after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, who served in office from January 1961 to November 1963. This is the second U.S. aircraft carrier named for President Kennedy, with the former being the last conventionally powered carrier, CV 67, which served from 1968 to 2007. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Cory J. Daut/Released)