Honeywell Wins USAF $75 million Contract For Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines Program

Honeywell has been awarded the US Air Force contract worth $75 million for the Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines (VAATE) III & Beyond program.

“This contract increases the not-to-exceed ceiling for the VAATE program, which is a multiple government agency and industry joint effort to develop revolutionary and innovative technologies by the 2017 timeframe that will permit an order of magnitude increase in turbo-propulsion affordability over the year 2000 state-of-the-art technology,” the US Department of Defense announced Monday.

Work will be performed at Phoenix, Arizona, and is expected to be complete by Jan. 28, 2023.