In 1988, Allison Engine Company (then owned by General Motors) and Rolls-Royce plc began joint studies of a 33 kN (7,400 lbf) RB580 to power the proposed Short Brothers FJX regional jet, combining the T406 core with a Rolls-Royce low-pressure spool.

[1] In 1995, Teledyne Ryan selected the AE3007H for the Tier II+ unmanned surveillance aircraft (now the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk), which required long-endurance at up to 70,000 ft (21,000 m).

[9] The AE 3007 is a direct drive turbofan engine with a single stage fan, a 14-stage axial compressor with 6 stages of variable vanes including inlet guide vanes, an annular combustor, a two-stage high pressure turbine and a 3-stage low pressure turbine.

[10] The AE 3007 has a thrust-specific fuel consumption (TSFC) of 0.36 lb/(lbf⋅h) (10 g/(kN⋅s)) at static sea level takeoff and 0.65 lb/(lbf⋅h) (18 g/(kN⋅s)) at a cruise speed of Mach 0.8 and altitude of 35,010 ft (10,670 m).

[11] The engine's A variant was designed to produce a cruise thrust of 6.3 kN (640 kgf; 1,420 lbf) at Mach 0.8 and 41,000 ft (12,000 m) altitude.