One carrier is on the way now in the water at Newport News shipbuilding yard, CVN 78 USS Gerald R Ford, due to be finished and operational next year if they get the new magnetic plane launcher to work that is.
Another carrier due five years from now is the USS John F Kennedy CVN 79.
The only planned super carrier after that one is the USS Enterprise CVN 80 planned for 2025.
By then Russia and China will have enough quality silent submarines to stay with 60 miles of any carrier group to attack as ordered by their high command.
The US Navy is even considering a super submarine carrier, but are worried that years from now they won't be considered undetectable.
I say down size to save money and save ships and save embarrassing losses (in a no one wins) real time war the nuclear warheads will be flying.
No one wants to see 5,500 men and women jumping off of a burning aircraft carrier.
The money could be better spent on homeland defense of our own shores to make sure no adversary could ever approach or attack American soil from the air or the sea.
These new drone submarines look promising for that ... and I've even heard of drone submarines that be attached to underwater buoys and released when needed.
Big navy, big government, big decisions
