Next Generation Power: The Aviation Turbine Engines Project Office Update

摘要

Aviation is entering an unrivalled modernization period with the emergence of rapidly maturing power technologies. Recent advancements in battery, generator, and engine technology offer real near-term capability increases. On the horizon, hybrid, More Electric Aircraft (MEA), and all electric technologies will conceivably change the way we think about and build helicopters. The potential opportunity, presented by these groundbreaking technologies, to increase reach and lethality in our enduring fleets is significant. Equally, if not more important, is the capability increase they will provide the Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) platforms and the resounding dominance that it will afford Army Aviation in Multi-Domain Operations. Army Aviation is carefully evaluating how many can be efficiently integrated to provide power solutions needed today and certainly in the future.