WASHINGTON - The Advanced Turbine Engine Co (ATEC), LLC - a joint venture between Honeywell International, Inc. and Pratt & Whitney has successfully completed testing of its second HPW3000 engine as part of the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate's (AATD) Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) Science and Technology program.
ATEC intends to offer the HPW3000 as a solution to replace the existing engines on U.S. Army Black Hawk and Apache helicopters. The HPW3000 engine offers dramatic improvements in performance, energy-efficiency and protection for soldiers over the current engine and would save billions of dollars in government costs on fuel, operations and maintenance.
The U.S. Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), the follow-on to the AATE program, is an effort to develop and field a new helicopter engine that provides a 50 percent increase in power, a 25 percent improvement in fuel efficiency, and significant reductions in operating and support costs. ITEP is intended to fit the existing installations of the Black Hawk and Apache, enabling both platforms to fly farther, stay on station longer, and use less fuel than currently fielded engines. Black Hawk and Apache helicopters comprise approximately 75 percent of the Army's helicopter fleet. ITEP is essential to ensuring these helicopters remain mission capable worldwide for the next 30 years or more.
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