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IUE-CWA Union Members Rally at the U.S. Capitol for the GE/Rolls-Royce Engine
WASHINGTON -- July 28, 2010 -- Hundreds of IUE-CWA members raised their voices to support high-technology jobs while rallying at the U.S. Capitol for the F136 competitive engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 aircraft.
The F136 engine, being developed by GE and Rolls-Royce, will support 4,000 jobs across the U.S. when it enters full production later this decade.
Speaking at the rally were: Jim Clark, President of the IUE-CWA; Annie Hill, Executive Vice President of the CWA; David Joyce, President & CEO of GE Aviation; U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), and U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio).
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U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee Strongly Endorses JSF Engine Competition
WASHINGTON -- July 27, 2010 -- In its Fiscal Year 2011 Defense Funding Bill, the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense voted to fund development of the GE/Rolls-Royce F136 competitive engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program for the 16th straight year.
The 11 to 5 committee vote strongly endorses competing engines for the JSF program. The independent U.S. Government Accountability Office has twice concluded that competing JSF engines could save $20 billion over the life of the program. The F136 engine development is now 75 percent complete. The engine is scheduled to flight test in the JSF F-35 aircraft next year.
GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team’s ‘Outstanding’ Test Year Continues
FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW, UK -- July 20, 2010 -- The fourth F136 engine to test in 2010 is in final assembly and will begin running within a few weeks, as the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team moves toward flight testing next year in the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
The fourth engine (Engine 007) will begin its initial testing at GE’s facility at Evendale, Ohio, US, where it will undergo performance operability qualification testing.
The Fighter Engine Team has successfully tested three engines already this year, meeting or exceeding all test requirements. Testing recently began on Engine 005 at the US Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, US, the first production-configuration F136 engine to test at AEDC.
GE Praises House Vote on Joint Strike Fighter
FAIRFIELD, CT -- May 27, 2010 -- Responding to the U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of continued funding for the competitive engine being developed by GE and Rolls-Royce for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, GE issued the following statement:
"We are pleased that the U.S. House of Representatives has once again voted in favor of the JSF competitive engine. This vote reaffirmed the Congress' strong and long-standing commitment to the F136 program. It is a win for competition and a win for the American taxpayers. The JSF competitive engine will save $20 billion over the 30-year span of the Joint Strike Fighter program, according to the independent Government Accountability Office."
U.S. House Armed Services Committee Moves to Preserve Competition for JSF Propulsion
EVANDALE, OH -- May 19, 2010 -- The full U.S. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) today led the charge for defense acquisition reform by voting on a National Defense Authorization Bill that includes $485 million in continued funding for the GE/Rolls-Royce F136 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Two U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittees Vote to Preserve JSF Engine Competition
WASHINGTON -- May 13, 2010 -- The U.S. House Armed Services Seapower and Air-Land Forces subcommittees today each marked up the National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2011 (H.R. 5136). Recognizing that the competition created by dual-sourced engines for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) drives cost savings and reduces operational risk, both subcommittees voted to authorize $485 million in continued funding of the GE/Rolls-Royce F136 engine for the JSF.
GE and Rolls-Royce Propose Fixed Price Offer for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Engine to Significantly Drive Down Costs
Offer to create and accelerate engine competition & change procurement process
EVENDALE, Ohio -- April 27, 2010 -- General Electric Co. and Rolls-Royce today announced that they have offered to the Pentagon a fixed price offer on their F136 engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
The offer intends to create and accelerate competition between the JSF program’s two engine suppliers, and to shift the risk of cost overruns from the government to defense contractors.
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F136 Development Timeline
1995
Citing commonality with the P&W engine for the F-22, the Pentagon directs the P&W engine concept to be used during JSF aircraft down-select process. As a result, P&W becomes the primary JSF engine without a competition.
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1996
Recognizing no JSF engine competition, Congress provides initial seed money to GE to study a competing engine. Rolls-Royce joins GE on the effort.
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1997
Congress further funds GE/Rolls-Royce and directs the Pentagon to ensure a full development program is launched. Pentagon structures program so the GE/RR engine enters production four years after the P&W engine.
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1999
Pentagon introduces "plug and play" engine interchangeability, whereby the competing engines are designed to the same external dimensions for easy changeout of engines.
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2002
GE/Rolls-Royce form joint venture company, GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team, to develop and produce the F136 engine.
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2000-2005
Development work continues on F136 engine. Successful "core" engine test and fan rig tests in 2000; first full engine runs in 2004.
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2005
GE/Rolls-Royce awarded $2.4B full-scale development contract(SDD), with completion in 2013.
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2008
The Fighter Engine Team completes STOVL testing at the new Peebles, Ohio, facility, which represents a multi-million dollar investment in the F136 program by GE.
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2006-2009
The Pentagon seeks to cancel the F136 program, citing budget constraints. Funding restored each year by strong bi-partisan Congressional support. Compelling arguments for competition and readiness cited. GE/Rolls-Royce receives top fee awards from Pentagon for excellent program execution.
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2010
GE/Rolls-Royce offers unique, fixed-price offer for early-production engines to move up the competition by five years.
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...this is not a question of pork; it is a sincere concern for the success of the F-35 program and for the benefits of competition. 
— Chairman Ike Skelton 
Perspective from Jacques Gansler, former Undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and Roger C. Lipitz
Chair in Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
Take Advantage of Competition in
Large Fighter Engine Programs
RollCall.com.
Perspective from former Director/Deputy Director of the Joint Strike Fighter Program, Michael A Hough
Competition for the JSF Engine? – It Never Happened!
Aviationweek.com.
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October 26, 2001