Aircraft Engine Component Improvement Program

Abstract

The Aircraft Engine Component Improvement Program (CIP) provides the only source of critical sustaining engineering support for in-service Air Force engines to maintain flight safety (highest priority), correct deficiencies, improve system Operational Readiness (OR), Reliability & Maintainability (R&M), reduce engine Life Cycle Cost (LCC), and sustain engines throughout their service lives. It also serves as the primary vehicle to implement emerging technology solutions (e.g., additive manufacturing and digital engineering) to resolve these issues, and improve engine performance. Past investments have reduced warfighter Class A rates, decreased Engine Related Loss of Aircraft (ERLOA) and generated significant returns on investments. Priority requirements for FY24 and FY25 include Accelerated Mission Testes (AMTs) required for complex redesigns. The AMT provides early identification of safety/reliability issues prior to the operational fleets discovering unknown safety and/or reliability issues. Ongoing tasks for this year support eliminating critical safety concerns, addressing obsolescence and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage (DMSMS), developing critical repairs, and extending life limited parts. Engines are accepted into the CIP program after the first procurement-funded engine, and support continues over the engine's life, gradually decreasing to a minimum level (safety/depot repairs) sufficient to keep older engines operational. Engine CIP testing identifies and addresses engine-related problems before operational impacts materialize. R&M related Engine CIP efforts significantly reduce out year Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and spares costs. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY23 $0.0M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY24 $0.858M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0207268F_7_3600_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: FY23 decrease of -$4.762M for Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR). FY25 adjustment of $0.117M for inflation rate increase.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.