Navy Awards $60M for Long Lead Components & Spares for F-135 Engines

Posted on: Aug. 27th, 2007 || Source: DoD | E-mail Article | Print Article

(DoD Contract Announcement) - United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney, Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded and estimated $60,000,000 advance acquisition contract for long lead components, parts and materials associated with the Lot 2 Low Rate Initial Production of 6 F-135 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) propulsion system installs and 2 CTOL propulsion system spares for the U.S.

Air Force and 6 Short Take-off and Vertical Landing Air Systems (STOVL) propulsion system installs and 2 STOVL propulsion system spares for the U.S. Navy. Work will be performed East Hartford, Conn. (70 percent), and Bristol, United Kingdom (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity (N00019-07-C-0098)

FILE PHOTO - P&W F135 Engine Test

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