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Article: Lower Acquisition Cost, Better Warranty Led To GE Win On C-5 Re-engining.(Air Force Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Defense Daily
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- August 8, 2000
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By Frank Wolfe
Lower price and a better warranty led to General Electric's [GE] win over Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney [UTX] last week in the Air Force Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-5 Galaxy airlifter.
The GE proposal, which included the company's CF6-80C2 engine, "had a slightly lower acquisition cost and a moderately better warranty," Bill Arndt, Lockheed Martin's vice president of strategic airlift, told Defense Daily in a telephone interview yesterday.
"All three engines are very, very good engines," Arndt said. Lockheed Martin's criteria for selection, in order of importance, were ...