The Defense Department has awarded Pratt & Whitney Co. a contract worth an estimated $113 million for F135 engines to power American and allied aircraft.
The no-bid contract specifies Pratt deliver 12 conventional take-off and landing engines for the Air Force and one for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. In addition, Pratt will deliver 14 short takeoff and vertical landing propulsion systems to the Marine Corps, four to the U.S. Navy, and one to the British Royal Navy
About 70 percent of the engine assembly will be at Pratt’s East Hartford production facility, with the rest scattered in Indianapolis and Bristol, England. Work is scheduled to be completed in February 2010.
