The Advanced Turbine Engine Company – ATEC – is a joint venture of Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell. ATEC’s dual-spool T900 engine for Black Hawks and Apaches will help provide battlespace superiority well into the future. Both Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell have a proven track record of successful partnerships with the U.S. Army, U.S….
The U.S. Army believes that future high-end conflicts will require aviation assets, particularly helicopters, that are long range, fast-moving and highly lethal. Future military helicopters will need to lift more weight, generate greater power and use less fuel. Read more at Real Clear Defense
Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 14, 2018 – The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture between Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) and the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), submitted the first of two proposals to the United States Army Contracting Command for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of…
The Army has an ambitious plan to develop, build and acquire a new family of vertical lift aircraft expected to come online in the 2030s. But naysayers often point to the service’s muddied track record in acquiring new weapons systems, particularly new helicopters. Read more at Defense News
Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney’s joint venture, Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), has confirmed its T900 can be installed on the Sikorsky Black Hawk and Boeing Apache. ATEC said recently it completed the installation of a high-fidelity mockup of the turbine engine. Read More at ROTOR & WING.
Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) Validates Installation Capability of T900 Improved Turbine Engine on Black Hawk and Apache Helicopters Huntsville, Ala., Dec. 13, 2017 – The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Pratt & Whitney (NYSE: UTX), completed successful installation of a high-fidelity mockup of the T900 engine….
The reputation that ATEC partners Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney have developed in the defense and aviation community over the decades is well-deserved. The scope and diversity of the engines, equipment, systems, avionics and platforms they developed over the past several decades built their credibility among the Army, Navy and Air Force. Honeywell has more…
US Army chief of staff Gen Mark Milley and acting Secretary Ryan McCarthy confirmed the service is pushing the Future Vertical Lift programme over incremental block upgrades during this week’s annual AUSA conference in Washington, DC. Read more at GLOBAL FLIGHT
The largest land power forum and exposition of the year will be held in Washington, DC on October 9-11th . The event is the annual meeting of the Association of the Army of the United States (AUSA) which will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. ATEC – the Advanced Turbine Engine Company…
Both the House and the Senate have now passed their versions of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The two bills must now be reconciled and then sent to the President for his signature. The NDAA will provide policy direction for the Department of Defense (DoD) for FY 2018, which began…