The Pentagon on Friday awarded Pratt & Whitney nearly $400 million for a contract modification that provides for performance-based logistics sustainment for the F-35 joint strike fighter’s engine system.
Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], supplies the F135 propulsion system for all U.S. government and international variants of the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built F-35. The contract modification provides for maintenance of support equipment, common program activities, unique and common base recurring sustainment, field service representatives, common replenishment spares, conventional take-off and landing/carrier variant F135-unique maintenance services, and short take-off and landing F135-unique services, according to the contract announcement.
Almost three quarters of the work will be performed in East Hartford, Conn. Eighteen percent will be conducted in Oklahoma City, Okla., with the rest split between Camari, Italy, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Edwards AFB, Calif., Hill AFB, Utah, Luke AFB, Ariz., and Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort in South Carolina. Work is expected to be completed in November 2019.
Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance from the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, non-U.S. DoD participants and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $399.8 million are being obligated on this award, over $277 million of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.