Improved Turbine Engine Program

Abstract

A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification: The Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) develops, tests, qualifies, and integrates the next generation turboshaft engine on the Blackhawk and Apache aircraft. The Improved Turbine Engine (ITE) replaces the existing T700 engine design originated in the 1970's and meets the operational requirement of 6K/95. The ITE will fit inside the existing engine bays of the Black Hawk and Apache Helicopters and provides a significant power enhancement of up to fifty percent (total of 3,000 shaft horsepower) with increased fuel efficiency. Additional benefits include improved design life, enhanced reliability, lower maintenance cost and restored capability lost due to aircraft weight growth, without increasing the logistics footprint. The program consists of systems engineering and program management, detailed design engineering, design assurance, hardware manufacturing and testing, component and module level development and testing, system level testing and qualification, as well as integration into the airframe. FY 2015 funding provides for systems engineering/program management in support of draft and formal Request For Proposal (RFP) release, initial Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) for Preliminary Design Review (PDR) competitive contracts, and platform/engine integration trade studies. FY 2016 funding provides for dual vendor competitive PDR contract awards, initial engine design effort, and continues platform/engine integration trade studies. FY 2017 continues engine design effort and platform/engine integration trade studies. FY 2018 funds the remaining PDR engine design effort, the Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) SSEB for entry into Milestone B (MS B), EMD contract award, and continues platform/engine integration trade studies. FY 2019 continues both the EMD effort and platform/engine integration trade studies, and results in a Critical Design Review (CDR) in FY 2019. FY 2020 continues both the EMD effort and platform/engine integration trade studies. FY 2021 continues the EMD effort, provides for First Engine To Test (FETT), and begins physical airframe integration.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
0607139A_7_2040_PB_2016
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Budgets
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Elements
  • Engineering
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Manufacturing
  • Platforms
  • Program Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Turbines

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.

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