
Delivery of the Army’s new helicopter engine to the vendors building prototypes for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program has been pushed to early 2024, delaying first flight tests to next year. Doug Bush, the Army’s top acquisition official, confirmed the delay to reporters on Tuesday citing “manufacturing challenges” with the General Electric Aviation [GE]-built T901 engines, developed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP). “It’s unfortunate. But ITEP is the engine for that platform so we’ve got…