Vendors competing in the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program expect the service to downselect to one design in early 2019. One of the two concepts for the Apache and Black Hawk engine replacement will move onto the engineering and manufacturing development phase after the Army's milestone B decision in late January, representatives of ITEP competitors GE Aviation and Advanced Turbine Engine Co., a joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney, told Inside Defense in separate interviews. The EMD phase...