Gov. M. Jodi Rell has commended the Pentagon for reversing course and preparing to request emergency funding for more F-22A Raptor fighter jets next month as part of its fiscal 2009 war funding request – good news for Pratt & Whitney.
The Raptor program involves more than 1,000 suppliers in 44 states, including thousands of workers at Pratt in Connecticut who build the F119 turbofan engines that power the F-22.
Last month, Rell wrote President Bush to urge continued production of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter jet. The Department of Defense had been considering putting an end to procurement of the fifth-generation fighter at the end of the current contract.
