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GE Continues Work on XA100 for Future Combat Aircraft

GE Continues Work on XA100 for Future Combat Aircraft
Pictured is the GE XA100 on the test stand in Evendale, Ohio (GE Aerospace Photo)

GE Aerospace [GE] has finished a fourth round of testing on the XA100 adaptive cycle engine "to gather additional data and advance this next-generation technology for future combat aircraft."  the company said on May 8. Last November, GE said that it had performed third phase testing of the second XA100 at its Evendale, Ohio plant outside of Cincinnati over the summer (Defense Daily, Nov. 14, 2023). The following month, GE "completed a major design review" of the second engine, the…

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