The Military University of Technology (WAT) in Warsaw has signed implementing agreements with GE Aerospace and the Boeing Company on offset obligations linked to Poland’s AH-64E Apache helicopter programme. The signing took place on 30 September 2026 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. The contracts cover knowledge transfer, equipment deliveries and training.
They were signed by WAT Rector-Commandant Brig. Gen. Przemysław Wachulak, Shawn Warren, vice president for defence and systems at GE Aerospace, and Honorata Hencel, managing director of Boeing in Poland and Ukraine. The minister said WAT was acting on Poland’s behalf and described the deals as part of Boeing’s and GE Aerospace’s fulfilment of agreements between Poland and the United States. Poland is buying 96 Apache helicopters.
WAT will set up an AH-64E Apache Guardian Helicopter Training Centre and an Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory. Teaching will use a virtual trainer, a helicopter and a training engine; the minister said the engine would be delivered next year, together with a helicopter for training purposes. According to the rector, WAT also expects in future to certify and maintain the aviation training process in line with European military airworthiness requirements (EMAR).
The minister said the agreements complement two earlier ones, most recently signed in Dęblin with the Military Aviation Works, which will be able to service the helicopters. The aim is for Polish ground-crew specialists to be trained in Poland instead of being sent to courses in the United States.
The agreements are one concrete result of Poland’s wider military build-up on NATO’s eastern flank, where industrial offsets are intended to keep skills and maintenance capacity in the country.
