Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said the Defense Department could decide whether to continue developing an adaptive engine for the F-35 in the fiscal 2024 budget.
General Electric (GE) has completed its final major contract milestone of the US Air Force's (USAF's) Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), having completed testing on its second XA100 adaptive cycle engine. The GE XA100 adaptive engine.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded $4.9 billion in contracts to General Electric Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman to build an adaptive engine prototype to power its next-generation fighter jet.
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