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The program will also seek to reduce operational and life cycle costs and the logistical footprint of the engine as well as the helicopter.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;ACE gives us the opportunity to build on a very successful demonstration of our HPW3000 engine and to add the variable speed turbine and other advanced features that are directly applicable to future vertical lift,&#8221; Craig Madden, president of ATEC, said. <br\/><br\/> The HPW3000 engine is ATEC&#8217;s Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) offering that company officials believe could save the Army $1 billion a year in fuel and maintenance costs.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ATEC was also recently awarded a $154 million contract for preliminary design review for the Army\u2019s ITEP that will replace the engines in roughly 3,000 of the service\u2019s UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GE Aviation was also awarded a PDR contract to develop its GE3000 engine for ITEP, to the tune of $102 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work under the contracts is expected to take two years, ending in August 2018, when the Army selects one engine design to continue into the engineering and manufacturing development phase. 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