
The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Electric [GE] a contract that could be worth nearly $1.6 billion for the company's F110 engines to power Lot 2 and possibly seven other lots of the Boeing [BA] F-15EX fighter. Included in the contract are 29 F110s for Lot 2, and the seven other lots have 300 engines. GE beat out long-time competitor, Pratt & Whitney [RTX], which had offered its F100 engine. The Air Force had picked GE to build eight…