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ATEC Protests Army Engine Award to GE, as ATEC President Calls T900 ‘Clearly’ the Best Value

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

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ATEC Protests Army Engine Award to GE, as ATEC President Calls T900 ‘Clearly’ the Best Value

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The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) on Feb. 19 lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office on the U.S. Army's recent decision to award General Electric [GE] a $517 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract for its next generation of UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopter engines--a contract likely worth billions of dollars as the new engines are also to power variants of the Army Future Vertical Lift program, including the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA). ATEC is…

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