History
The contract for George Washington was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding on 27 December 1982. The keel was laid on 25 August 1986, it was christened 21 July 1990 by then–First Lady Barbara Bush, and was commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk on 4 July 1992.
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