ITEP: GAO Okays Army Picking Riskier Engine – Will Congress?
The full GAO decision undermines one of ATEC's arguments to overturn the award to rival GE, technical superiority, but it reinforces another: risk.
ITEP: GE Defends Its Helicopter Engine
Leaked extracts from an Army review tell only part of the story, a 12-year saga of extensive research, development, and testing, the company argues.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
ATEC Appeals To Hill For Helicopter Engine Dough
Rebuffed by the Army and GAO in its bid to re-engine aging helicopters, ATEC has gone over their heads to Congress and asked legislators for a second chance.
If Trump Wants Lower F-35 Costs, He Should Compete F135 Engine
Donald Trump has bemoaned the “over budget, behind schedule” F-35 program. He opened his first press conference as president-elect with a vow to do “big things” to bring down the aircraft’s cost and improve performance. That will take more than jaw-boning. Applying heat to Lockheed will reduce costs to a degree, but it would take another […]
GE Jet Sets Record; Will F-35 Get New AETD Engine?
PARIS AIR SHOW: Pratt & Whitney has refused to disclose the price of its F135 engines for the F-35 for quite a while, even while Lockheed Martin boasted it would bring down the price of the Joint Strike Fighter to $80 million a copy — including engine. Now we know why. At a Monday briefing […]