Sikorsky-Boeing chooses Honeywell engine and power systems for FLRAA
The news comes months after Sikorsky-Boeing announced it would be using Honeywell’s HTS7500 turboshaft engine for its FLRAA offering, the DEFIANT X.
Sikorsky-Boeing team to use Honeywell engine to power FLRAA offering
The Army's contract award will come later this year.
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Skyborg Could Develop Multiple Drones For Many Missions
The Air Force is "driving toward" 2023 for initial operating capability for Skyborg, says AFRL Director Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle.
ABMS Demos Speed New Capabilities To Warfighters
ABMS is essentially the first effort by the Defense Department to "build the Internet of Things for the military," Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisition, says.
Make Northrop Work With Us On GBSD: Boeing To Hill, Air Force
"We think clearly it's time for the Air Force and other governmental entities to engage and direct the right solution. Northrop has chosen not to do that," Frank McCall, Boeing’s director of strategic deterrence systems, said.
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.
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GE’s ITEP Win & The Army’s Inch-By-Inch Revolution
Having wasted tens of billions and almost 30 years since the end of the Cold War, the Army is out of time. But after decades of incremental improvements, its existing weapons — including the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that GE’s new engine will upgrade – are overweight, underpowered, and running out of room to grow. Meanwhile, the Army’s attempts at a high-tech great leap forward kept getting cancelled as unaffordable, unfeasible, or both.
Big SPAR Army Review May Topple ITEP
Critics say the Army could end up wasting billions by developing a better engine for its Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters even as the joint Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative gets underway to replace those aircraft. The critics are wrong, program officials assure us. But the critics still disagree. A new Army […]
Another Baby Step For Army Aviation’s ‘Top Priority’
Army aviation’s “top modernization priority program” – at least that’s what they call it – took another baby step forward this week. The service awarded preliminary design review contracts to the two competitors vying to build a better engine to power the service’s vast fleet of Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters. […]
Buy A New Helo Engine? The Army Thinks It Can, Thinks It Can…
After more than seven years of designing and testing how to make new, more powerful, and incredibly fuel efficient engines for its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and UH-60 Black Hawk utility birds, the Army has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP). The Army’s “top aviation priority” thus takes a baby step closer to becoming a […]
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“It’s Unbelievable What We Go Through,” Laments Army Helo Program Manager
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.: You’re the Army and you really, really want a new, more powerful and efficient engine for most of your helicopter fleet. It’s really urgent. But you’re not going to get those engines for your UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters for at least another 11 years. What’s the reason? Good old […]
Future Vertical Lift Begins Open Software Quest
WASHINGTON: The first Future Vertical Lift Aircraft won’t fly until the 2030s but the Army, Navy, and industry are already at work on software standards. Those include a new “model-based” approach to software architectures that will require a culture change among programmers and defense bureaucrats alike. Why take on so much so early? Because FVL will […]
Pratt & Whitney Bets Big Profits Loom, If F-35 Stays Healthy
HARTFORD, CT: Aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney proudly predicts it will double its revenues this decade from $12 billion in 2010 to $24 billion in 2020 — but the company admits it will have to get through some lean years first. On both the commercial and military sides, key Pratt & Whitney programs are […]