[SoJoCo]

While in dry dock her hull was scraped and painted, her deck received a new non-skid coat, and she may have had arresting wires installed, though that last is not confirmed.

You don't just plop in a couple of arresting wires. If it didn't wires before then it'd take a lot longer than three months to rip up the flight deck and redesign the below deck spaces to install them.

[Jeff Head]

Would not have to be redesigned. The class was designed for them. All of the sturcture and hardware are already there...they just had not put the wires in yet.