General Electric (GE) and Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) touted the capabilities of their respective engines in the quest by the U.S. Army to find new engines for the Apache and Black Hawk fleets under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP). ATEC is a joint venture with Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney started in 2006. GE and ATEC have…
Sometime in the next few months, the U.S. Army will make an award in one of its most critical modernization efforts: the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP). In 2006, the Army began an effort with the aerospace industry to design and develop a new engine primarily intended to replace the existing power plant in its…
Huntsville, AL, July 30, 2018 – The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) and the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), submitted Phase II of its proposal for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) to the…
Every procurement for the U.S. military has one goal: ensuring mission success. Whether it’s food, fuel, firearms or larger platforms, the objective is to make America’s servicemembers more efficient and more lethal. Currently the U.S. Army is in the process of procuring the first major change in engines for its Black Hawk and Apache helicopter…
Huntsville, Ala., April. 27, 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), successfully conducted the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) toward the development of the Army’s most advanced helicopter engine earlier this month. As part…
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.