General Electric [GE] and RTX's [RTX] Pratt & Whitney have reported progress in their Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) efforts for the U.S. Air Force's manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. GE said that on Wednesday that it had finished Detailed Design Review (DDR) of its X102 adaptive cycle engine--what the company called "the first engine in GE Aerospace’s history to be developed using model-based systems engineering, representing a transformative shift in how advanced propulsion systems are designed and…
