Five companies--General Electric [GE], Raytheon Technologies' Pratt & Whitney [RTX], Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], and Northrop Grumman [NOC]--are receiving contracts under an umbrella, $975 million effort for the prototype phase of the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio may award up to $975 million over the next decade "for technology maturation and risk reduction activities through design, analysis, rig testing, prototype engine testing, and weapon system integration," DoD…
