The GE Brief: June 26, 2023

A Major Milestone Between GE Aerospace and India

GE Aerospace has operated in India for more than four decades, and today came the latest engagement. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to co-produce F414 fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force. The “historic agreement” coincides with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official state visit to the United States. Read more here.

How RISE Arose

The roots of GE’s bold goal to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20% in commercial jet engines go back decades. Read more here about the program called Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines, or RISE.

GE Aerospace’s Military Might

GE Aerospace showed off its latest technologies last week at the Paris Air Show. Read here about some of the company’s most important milestones from a half century of innovation and global military partnerships — along with a look at the next era of military flight.

A Transformative Era of Action

GE released its 2022 Sustainability Report today. The third annual document looks at GE’s sustainability goals and priorities and reports progress across climate change, product safety and quality, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more. “It all starts with our unique ability to innovate new technology the world needs to address the most pressing sustainability challenges,” says H. Lawrence Culp, GE’s chairman and chief executive officer. “By sharpening our focus on the specific missions of each business, we gain more opportunity for GE Vernova to electrify and decarbonize the world, for GE Aerospace to invent the future of flight and for the newly independent GE HealthCare to create a world where healthcare has no limits.” Find out more here.

Revolutionizing Flight

Petter Hörnfeldt, host of the YouTube channels Mentour Now! and Mentour Pilot, dives deep into the CFM RISE Program and explains why it holds so much promise for a more sustainable future of flight. Read more about Hörnfeldt in GE Reports’ recent profile.

 — Quote of the Day —

“Investing in fuel efficiencies is not only the right thing to do for the planet and for following generations, it’s also going to be much more of an economic differentiator for the operators compared to what it was in the past.”

— Arjan Hegeman, general manager of advanced technology, GE Aerospace