General Electric/Rolls-Royce claims the F136 alternate engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be introduced with a major power advantage over its rival propulsion system. The ...

Hot, hot, hot. That's the only way to describe the last few weeks of the new engine war. The latest salvo fired in the three-sided battle (DefSec Gates and Pratt vs. GE/Rolls Royce) comes from John ...

The Pentagon killed the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's alternate engine, but some members of Congress are determined to revive it. Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis had worked on the alternate engine in a ...

GE and Rolls-Royce's "alternate engine" for the F-35 has looked dead for some time, but the corpse stopped twitching on Friday. The companies announced they're abandoning their effort to try to pay ...

US lawmakers have launched a campaign to save the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 engine from extinction only a week after the Department of Defense signed an order terminating the development ...

EVENDALE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team has successfully hit full afterburner on its third new production-configuration engine, continuing a year of major progress and ...

LONDON — The Dutch government has no direct sway over the discussion of whether to fund one or two engines for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the defense ministry has come out in favor of keeping ...

GE, Rolls Royce to dissolve engine team after billions poured into program. Dec. 2, 2011 — -- General Electric and Rolls Royce have decided to stop the development of an alternate engine for the ...

WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- General Electric has indicated it will fight the Pentagon's decision to terminate a contract for developing an extra engine for the F136 Joint Strike Fighter jet engine ...

General Electric and its partner Rolls-Royce plan to have the first production F136 alternate engines available in 2012 for the fourth lot of Joint Strike Fighters, solidifying an important milestone ...

Mackenzie Eaglen specializes in defense strategy, military readiness and the defense budget. While few expect any tough votes if the Senate's FY 2010 defense appropriations bill arrives on the floor ...