GE Aerospace's T901 helicopter engine received Preliminary Flight Rating and cleared for qualification flights on Black Hawk and Apache aircraft. The company cut 12 months from the schedule and reduced qualification costs by $75 million.
Curtiss-Wright received contracts valued in excess of $225 million from Bechtel Plant Machinery to supply propulsion valves, pumps, and control systems for Virginia-class, Columbia-class submarines and Ford-class carriers through 2030.
RENK Group's military vehicle propulsion orders jumped 46.2% in the first nine months of 2026, driven by contract extensions from KNDS Deutschland and Patria. Record backlog of €7.6B signals sustained demand through the decade.
RENK Group completed its acquisition of David Brown Defence, gaining submarine propulsion technology, 530 employees, and a £700 million order backlog through 2030 across Type 26 and land systems programs.
Czech PBS Group is investing $100 million to expand its Roswell, Georgia turbojet engine plant, targeting 10,000 engines per year by 2028, nearly doubling current output for drone and missile systems.
Pratt & Whitney is spending $100M to expand its Rzeszów facility for F-35 and military engine components, expected operational by 2028. Combined with a $200M Georgia investment, the two projects will lift rotating compressor and turbine disk output by 30%.
Singularity and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division compressed solid rocket motor development from one year to three months under a CRADA, validating a motor design for Singularity's tactical air defense interceptor systems.
Fairbanks Morse Defense broke ground on a third Center of Excellence at its Pascagoula facility, investing $60M to double naval propulsion manufacturing capacity with support from the U.S. Navy and Australia.
Petra Power secured approximately $9M in Defense Department contracts for solid oxide fuel cells to power auxiliary systems in military land vehicles, with first deployment targeted for 2028.
The Colorado propulsion startup won two Navy contracts worth $137M to design and qualify solid rocket motors for the Compact Air-to-Air Missile and Naval Modular Missile programs using 3D-printing technology.
GE Aerospace increased F110 fighter engine production 50% year-over-year since Q2 2025 through $600M in internal manufacturing investments and $100M+ in supplier tooling, using AI and process improvements to cut lead times 60%.
The U.S. Army chose Ameresco to develop nuclear power campuses at two military installations, with a 390-MW molten salt reactor planned for Aberdeen under the Strategic Capital Initiatives program.
Rolls-Royce will deploy £300 million across five UK facilities to upgrade defence propulsion and civil aerospace manufacturing through 2031, with Bristol receiving over £90 million for Eurofighter and GCAP support.
Fluor Marine Propulsion received a $2.41 billion cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to support Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program work across three Naval Nuclear Laboratory locations.
Kratos and GE Aerospace completed the first hot-fire ignition of the GEK800 (F143) turbofan after more than 50 ground test starts, as the engine enters JASSM's EMD phase as a second source.