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Navy Works To Accelerate Aircraft Engines Buys Amid Commercial Slowdown

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

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Navy Works To Accelerate Aircraft Engines Buys Amid Commercial Slowdown

A P-8A Poseidon assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 flies over USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) in Chesapeake Bay in 2016. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy is looking to buy aircraft engines and conduct aviation work faster than planned to take advantage of the slowdown in the commercial sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the service’s top acquisition official said on Tuesday. “Obviously commercial aviation is still remarkably challenged and remarkably important because we do get a lot of benefit in the DoD from the commercial aviation sector from those companies that work in both areas. So we’re working closely with them,” Assistant Secretary…

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