Two of Connecticut’s largest employers and defense industry manufacturers won awards from the U.S. Navy last week, according to new information from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney and Groton-based Electric Boat secured military contracts totalling more than $165 million from the Navy for aerospace and submarine-related production.
Electric Boat’s contract, worth $145 million, was awarded March 21 and is for “engineering, technical, design agent, and planning yard support for operational strategic and attack submarines.” Most of the work for the contract, 70%, will be performed at Electric Boat’s shipyard headquarters in Groton and is expected to be completed in September.
Earlier in the week, on March 18, Pratt & Whitney won a $20.2 million contract to “provide training, test cell installation and commissioning, unit level support equipment, automatic logistics integration, system integration, software development, and warehouse IT network capability in support of Depot site activation for the F-35 Lightning II program.” About a third of the contract’s work will be completed in East Hartford, while the rest will be done at facilities in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. The contract is expected to be completed in 2026.
