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General Electric’s aviation subsidiary has started to test a rotorcraft engine that is designed to power Apache, Black Hawk and Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft platforms for the U.S. Army. GE Aviation said Wednesday testing work is underway on the first T901-GE-900 motor developed as part of the Improved Turbine Engine Program‘s engineering and manufacturing development […] More
Triumph Group has secured a $17.3M delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply updated digital electronic control units for two U.S. Army helicopter fleets.
Textron's Bell subsidiary is slated to test the autonomous flight feature of a tiltrotor aircraft's fly-by-wire control system as part of the U.S. Army's one-year extension to the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration initiative, Asia Times reported Tuesday.
Triumph Group secured a $12.4M delivery order with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide the U.S. Army with digital electronic control units for aircraft.
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, plans to conduct a fully autonomous flight of the S-70 helicopter as an optionally manned aircraft by 2020, Military.com reported Thursday.
Triumph Group's integrated systems business will produce digital electronic control units for two U.S. Army aircraft types under a potential $77M contract extension from the Defense Logistics Agency.
Ron Hutter and Mike Sousa of General Electric told Defense News in an interview published Thursday about the company's proposed technology for the U.S. Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program. ITEP seeks to build a new engine for integration with the service branch's existing helicopters and aircraft under the Future Vertical Lift program. Hutter, executive director […] More
Textron's Bell subsidiary has conducted a flight demonstration of its proposed offering for the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday. The pilots flew the V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft on Thursday at Bell's flight research center in Arlington, Va., 10 months after the plane made its initial flight at the company's Amarillo, Texas-based […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary is conducting ground checks to prepare a medium-lift utility helicopter equipped with a robotic co-pilot kit for initial flight tests slated to commence by the end of the year, Rotor & Wing reported Friday. The upcoming flight demonstration of an automated UH-60A Black Hawk will culminate a decade-long collaborative effort of Sikorsky, the U.S. Army and the Defense […] More
The U.S. Army has completed a preliminary design review of an engine technology General Electric‘s aviation business developed under a 24-month, $102 million contract awarded in September 2016. GE said Wednesday the PDR represents a milestone for the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the service branch’s Improved Turbine Engine Program. The company offered its T901-GE-900 as a […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary and Romaero have signed a partnership agreement with the goal to encourage Romanian defense companies to support in-country assembly and maintenance of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Romaero said Wednesday Lockheed authorized the Bucharest-based aerospace company to host a regional center that will assemble, equip, customize and maintain the multimission aircraft in Central Europe. Eric Schreiber, a […] More
The U.S. Army looks to issue a request for proposals in 2018 to acquire a light ground mobility vehicle designed for transportation of infantry troops across future combat zones, Defense News reported Thursday. Col. Shane Fullmer, joint light tactical vehicles program manager at the Army, told reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army“™s annual meeting […] More
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