:

Army

GE Aerospace Anticipates Full Qualification of T901 By End of Next Year

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026

SHARE:

GE Aerospace Anticipates Full Qualification of T901 By End of Next Year

Paul Ferraro, GE Aerospace's vice president and general manager of defense engines and services, briefs reporters on Monday at the company's site in Lynn, Mass.

LYNN, Mass.--GE Aerospace [GE] anticipates qualification of the company's T901 engine by the end of next year. The Army awarded the company a $517 million engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract in February 2019 to develop the T901 engine under the service's Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), which the Army had planned to cut under its transformation initiative but that Congress has sustained, including $63 million in last year’s reconciliation bill to continue testing and $175 million for development in…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]