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USAF Wants More Data on Industry Landscape for Advanced Small Engines

USAF Wants More Data on Industry Landscape for Advanced Small Engines
In June, Anduril said that it had bought Indiana-based Adranos. The latter created an aluminum-lithium alloy fuel called ALITEC that can yield an up to 40 percent range increase in solid rocket motors, Anduril said (Anduril Photo)

While the U.S. Air Force is examining industry capacity to build engines for the future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the service also wants a feel for the broader landscape on advanced small engines. The acquisition branch of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's propulsion directorate (AFLCMC/LPA) at Tinker AFB, Okla., on Nov. 17 said that it had issued an advanced small engines request for information (RFI) dealing with "propulsion for small-scale current and future weapons systems." The directorate said…

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