General Electric Bests Pratt & Whitney In $1.6B F-15EX Engine Competition

[PeteS in CA]

General Electric Bests Pratt & Whitney In $1.6B F-15EX Engine Competition

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/general-electric-bests-pratt-whitney-in-1-6b-f-15ex-engine-competition/

WASHINGTON: General Electric’s F110-129 engines will continue powering the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II, the Air Force announced today, awarding the company a $1.6 billion contract.

The decision put to rest a battle between Pratt & Whitney, which produced F100 engines for the legacy F-15 Eagle and F-15E Strike Eagle, and rival General Electric, which manufactured GE F110-129 engines for the first lot of eight F-15EX aircraft.

For the F-15EX engine competition, Pratt & Whitney offered the latest version of the F100, the F100-PW-229. No other offers were received, according to the Pentagon’s contract announcement.

The new contract covers engines for the second lot and beyond, with the possibility of supplying up to 329 engines for the twin-engine fighter.

GE's F110 family engines already power most of the USAF's current F-16 fleet, so the F110 family is not an unknown quantity.

[SZonian]

Having worked on both engines, the better engine won.

P&W Field "Service" Reps are the most difficult to work with and least helpful contractors I've ever had to deal with.

GE Field Service Reps on the other hand are the polar opposite.