Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana, is awarded a $1,013,571,576 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, necessities contract. This contract supplies intermediate, depot-level upkeep and associated logistics assist for about 210 in-service T-45 F405-RR-401 Adour engines in assist of the U.S. Navy. Work shall be carried out in Meridian, Mississippi (47%); Kingsville, Texas (46%); Pensacola, Florida (6%); and Patuxent River, Maryland (1%), and is anticipated to be accomplished in July 2027. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Protection Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The U.S. Naval Air System Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting exercise.
The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour is a two-shaft low bypass turbofan plane engine developed by Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Restricted, a three way partnership between Rolls-Royce (UK) and Turbomeca (France). The engine is called after the Adour, a river in south western France. The Adour is a turbofan engine developed primarily to energy the Anglo-French SEPECAT Jaguar fighter-bomber, reaching its first profitable take a look at run in 1968. Greater than 3,000 Adours have been produced, for over 20 totally different armed forces with whole flying hours reaching 8 million in December 2009. The Adour is a rugged and easy-to-maintain engine, which has earned its fame as a confirmed and reliable energy plant for floor assault and superior coach plane.
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The U.S. navy designation for this engine is the F405-RR-401 (a by-product of the Adour Mk 871), which is at the moment used to energy the fleet of Boeing / BAE Techniques T-45 Goshawk navy coach jets of the U.S. Navy. The Mk951 supplies elevated thrust, diminished life-cycle prices and higher efficiency by way of the addition of a FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Management) system. In the course of the mid-Nineteen Nineties, Rolls-Royce labored on establishing a US-based manufacturing line for the Adour engine, which was to be operated by the previous Allison Engine Firm (which had been lately acquired by Rolls-Royce in 1995); nonetheless, throughout September 1997, the U.S. Navy selected to terminate the partially-finished engine effort.
The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) T-45 Goshawk is a extremely modified model of the British BAE Techniques Hawk land-based coaching jet plane. Manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and British Aerospace (now BAE Techniques), the T-45 is utilized by the US Navy as an plane carrier-capable coach. The T-45 Goshawk is a carrier-qualified model of the British Aerospace Hawk Mk.60.[1][20] It was redesigned as a coach for the US Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC). Modifications have been made to the Hawk in two levels. The Hawk was redesigned for service operations and submitted to the Navy for flight analysis. The event flight trials resulted in additional modifications.
