FAA awards $125 million in ‘CLEEN’ aircraft technology contracts

June 28, 2010 at 8:08 am | Posted in Aviation Law Current Event | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: Air Transport World

US FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt announced yesterday atATW’s Eco-Aviation Conference that the agency has awarded $125 million to five companies to “develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise.”

The five-year contracts are part of FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise program, or CLEEN. The five companies–Boeing, GE Aviation, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce-North America—each will match the agency’s investment dollar-for-dollar, bringing the total CLEEN investment to $250 million…more