GE Aviation has announced that the company, in partnership with The United States Air Force, has successfully concluded testing on GE’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) located in Tennessee, U.S. According to GE, after concluding the testing at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex, the company has achieved the final major contract milestone of the Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), which began in 2016.
The XA100 adaptive cycle engine is a product of GE Edison Works, a business unit dedicated to the research, development, and production of advanced military solutions. This business unit has full responsibility for strategy, innovation, and execution of advanced programs.
“This is the culmination of more than a decade of methodical risk reduction and testing GE has completed with the Air Force across three different adaptive cycle engine programs,” said David Tweedie, vice president and general manager for Advanced Products, GE Edison Works. “The engine performance data we gathered at AEDC continued to show the XA100’s transformational capability, while also demonstrating a return on substantial Air Force and taxpayer investment. We now stand ready to transition to an Engineering and Manufacturing Development program and bring this engine to the field with the F-35 before the end of this decade,” he further added.