This was a sole-source acquisition, a five-year base contract with one five-year option period. The performance completion date is May 31, 2028, the DOD said.
The Army, Air Force and Navy use the engines.
GE Aerospace will invest up to $20 million into its Electrical Power Integrated Systems Center (or “EPISCenter”) to build a new test cell, bringing to nearly $100 million the amount that has been invested into the University of Dayton campus facility in the past decade, the company said last month.
Construction will begin on the new cell within the River Park Drive facility this summer. It will be the center’s seventh test cell. There is room for an eighth test cell within the building, but there are no plans to build one.
It is NASA’s partnership with GE that is driving the investment, although GE officials cautioned in interviews that the cell will not be devoted exclusively to work with NASA.
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