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GE Restarts ITEP Work After GAO Turns Down ATEC Protest

Frank Wolfe

Friday, June 7th, 2019

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GE Restarts ITEP Work After GAO Turns Down ATEC Protest

In addition to being part of the U.S. Army's plans for Future Vertical Lift, ITEP is to install GE T901 engines on Boeing AH-64 Apaches and Lockheed Martin UH-60 Black Hawks, such as this one. (Lockheed Martin Photo)

On May 30, General Electric [GE] re-started its work on the T901 single-spool engine for the U.S. Army Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) after the Army lifted a stop-work order necessitated by a bid protest, according to GE officials. Tom Champion, GE's T901 program manager, and Mike Sousa, GE's director of business development for advanced turboshaft engine programs, spoke to Defense Daily sister publication Rotor & Wing International in a June 7 phone interview. "It's a very exciting program developing a new…

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