Nimitz- and Ford-class supercarriers' size and expense are a strategic vulnerability in a future maritime conflict; light aircraft carriers (CVLs) would reduce the risk to grand strategy and cut life-cycle and operating costs, provided a CVL can carry the needed mix of rotary-wing, fixed-wing, electronic-attack, and unmanned aircraft — and set-based design can produce the feasible CVL by mapping the trade space in tonnage, launch method, propulsion, and performance.

— In our words · Source: Using Mathematical Modeling and Set-Based Design Principles to Recommend an Existing CVL Design (William H. Ehlies)