Army Seeking Design Proposals For New Apache, Black Hawk Engines

By Tactical-Life

The following is a release from Army News Service:

Last week, the Army asked industry to provide preliminary design review proposals for the Improved Turbine Engine Program, or ITEP, which will eventually replace the existing General Electric T700-GE-701C/D engines that now power AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk aircraft.

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Engine manufacturers have until Nov. 9 to submit those design proposals. The Army will then select from those submitted proposals up to two manufacturers who will compete for 24 months to be chosen as the single manufacturer of the Improved Turbine Engine.

“This is Army aviation’s No. 1 modernization program. Ultimately, the warfighter needs the ITEP,” said Lt. Col. Curt Kuetemeyer, product manager, Improved Turbine Engine Program, during a Sept. 28 press conference.

Rich Kretzschmar, project manager for the Improved Turbine Engine and Future Vertical Lift, said he is confident that bidding contractors will have the chops to design an engine that can meet the demands of the ITEP program, having worked already on the Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine, or AATE, program.

“We feel very confident that the original equipment manufacturers that are selected can build on what they have demonstrated either in …read more

Source:: Tactical Life