DOD transfers $25M from Army's ITEP, program remains ahead of schedule

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The Pentagon in April approved a $25 million transfer from the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program to Army Space Systems Integration, according to a reprogramming memo. In the April 17 memo, which was recently made public, then-acting Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker transferred fiscal year 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds from ITEP due to "rephasing costs from the design engineering for the platform/engine integration contract award to a later fiscal year effort." "These costs budgeted for phase 1 are not needed in FY 2019 and will not be required until a later fiscal year for the Phase 2 integration," the memo states. The Army awarded an Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract to General Electric last February for the company's T901 turbine engine, which is the designated engine for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, "Both the budget submittal (November 2018) and the Army Cost Position (January 2019) were finalized and approved before the EMD contract was awarded in February 2019," the Army's Aviation Turbine Engines Project Office told Inside Defense in an email today. "While the ACP is an accurate depiction of the total program cost, it does not represent the funding profile for GE's execution plan on the awarded EMD contract."