Pratt & Whitney (Raytheon) will do engine maintenance for the F-35s
Pratt & Whitney, the subsidiary of US defense giant Raytheon Technologies, has been awarded a $256 million F135 engine maintenance contract by the US Department of Defense
The Pentagon entrusts Pratt & Whitney with the maintenance and repair activities for the F135 engines of the F-35, the fifth generation fighter produced by Lockheed Martin .
Raytheon Technologies Corp subsidiary awarded a $256.3 million contract option from the Naval Air Systems Command to provide depot-level maintenance and repairs for all in-field F135 propulsion systems at F-35 manufacturing sites and operational locations, to include training in support of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers and countries participants in the JSF international program.
The F135 is the fighter engine evolved from the F119 engine that powers the F-22 Raptor.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) expects work under the contract amendment to be completed in November 2023.
The company announced in March that it had been awarded a $5.2 billion contract to support the production of F135 Engine Lots 15 and 16, with an option to award Lot 17, which power all three variants of the F-35 Lightning II fighter. The total contract value for Lots 15-17, with options exercised, is approximately $8 billion and will finance more than 418 F135 engines with options for US and international customers.
Meanwhile, the engine maker is moving forward with plans to upgrade the powerplants of the US fleet of Lockheed Martin stealth fighters. The Raytheon Technologies subsidiary received an initial $66 million contract from the DoD to support initial activities for the Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) program last week .
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The Department of Defense has awarded Raytheon Technologies Corp. and its subsidiary Pratt and Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford a $256.31 million modification to a previously awarded F135 engine contract. So the US Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force will commit a total of $178 million to the contract. Specifically, they will use their funds for FY 2023 operations and maintenance.
Funds from non-DoD participants and FMS customers total $50.1 million and $28.16 million, respectively.
PART OF THE WORKS ALSO IN CAMERI
Therefore, the works will be performed in East Hartford in Connecticut (40%), Oklahoma City in Oklahoma (21%), Indianapolis in Indiana (12%), West Palm Beach in Florida (6%), Windsor Locks in Connecticut (6%), Brekstad in Norway (4%), Leeuwarden in the Netherlands (3%), Iwakuni in Japan (3%), Williamtown in Australia (2%), Cameri in Italy (1%), Marham in the United Kingdom (1%) and Fort Worth in Texas (1%).
PRATT & WHITNEY AT WORK TO UPDATE THE F-135 ENGINE
Finally, Pratt & Whitney was awarded a $66 million contract last week to continue design efforts for the US Department of Defense's F135 Engine Core Upgrade program.
Through the agreement, the company was awarded additional funding for the initiative's design engineering, program management, long-term material and hardware purchases, technology development, risk reduction, and weapons system integration.
“We will use this funding to make rapid progress on our Engine Core Upgrade preliminary design efforts,” said Jen Latka, Pratt & Whitney's vice president for the F135 program. “This will keep us on track to deliver this important capability starting in 2028,” he added.
In December 2022, the Raytheon subsidiary was awarded the initial contract to modernize the engines of all F-35 Lightning II fighter jet variants. In March 2023 the US Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force elected to upgrade the F135 rather than replace it with an all-new engine.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/f-35-a-pratt-whitney-raytheon-contratto-per-manutenzione-motori-f-135/ on Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:19:16 +0000.