Rolls-Royce has met initial goals in the testing period of a new engine that will power the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress bomber platform and expects the phase to conclude by the end of the year. The F130 tests taking place at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi are part of risk reduction efforts for […] More

Rolls-Royce has met initial goals in the testing period of a new engine that will power the U.S. Air Force's B-52 Stratofortress bomber platform and expects the phase to conclude by the end of the year. More

Rolls-Royce has received a $66.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to sustain a critical component of the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-class littoral combat ships. The company’s Marine North America business will specifically provide engineering and technical support for the MT30 gas turbine engines of the naval fleet, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will be determined and defined […] More

Boeing and NASA conducted a field test to determine the carbon emission rate from using sustainable fuel blends on the 2022 ecoDemonstrator aircraft powered by 26-year-old Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines. NASA said the study advances a goal similar with Boeing’s to adopt alternative fuels in order to reduce aerospace-related carbon footprint. Researchers compared the amount […] More

Boeing and Rolls-Royce are using digital design techniques to facilitate the integration of new engines and other components into B-52 Stratofortress bombers, Defense News reported. In September, Rolls-Royce won a potential $2.6 billion contract to provide F130 replacement engines for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of Boeing-built B-52H aircraft to keep the bombers operational into […] More

Military aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University and Purdue University to examine the potential of artificial intelligence technology to detect cybersecurity risks to propulsion and power systems. The partnership seeks to create AI-based intrusion detection approaches for embedded hardware in products such as aerospace engines as part of the Rolls-Royce Cybersecurity Technology Research Network, the company said Thursday.

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Dan Antal, formerly senior vice president and general counsel for civil group at Leidos, has joined Rolls-Royce as general counsel for defense and North America business. He will serve on the board of Rolls-Royce North America, lead general counsel teams across the U.S. and oversee the company’s special security agreement with the Department of Defense.

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A Modern Technology Solutions Inc.-Shift5 partnership has been selected to create an embedded system cybersecurity environment for military aircraft and ship engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce.

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Rolls-Royce and Reaction Engines have agreed to team up to build high-speed aircraft propulsion platforms and explore the use of Reaction Engines’ thermal management technologies in hybrid-electric systems and gas turbine engines for defense and civil aerospace platforms.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary has awarded contracts to Rolls-Royce and aerospace technology manufacturer Astronics to provide propulsion and power generation systems to support Bell’s bid for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.

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The Department of Defense has awarded contract actions worth $36.9M combined to Rolls-Royce and aircraft fuel technology provider Amfuel in a move to drive domestic production at the industrial-base level.

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Rolls-Royce has secured a six-year, $70.3M contract to help the U.S. Navy repair and maintain controllable pitch propeller hubs for guided-missile destroyers, cruisers, landing docks and mine countermeasures ships.

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