GE warns ITEP engine program needs ‘little bit more money’ for testing in FY27 budget
After the president’s FY27 budget request zeroed out funding for the new engine, GE said more money is needed to finish qualification testing.
After the president’s FY27 budget request zeroed out funding for the new engine, GE said more money is needed to finish qualification testing.
The engine was originally scheduled to be delivered in 2022, but after years of delays due to supply chain issues triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic along with trouble with manufacturing advanced parts, delivery has still not occurred.
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. […]