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F-35 Engine Modernization Solicitation May Come Before End of Year

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, September 14th, 2022

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F-35 Engine Modernization Solicitation May Come Before End of Year

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft, assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, depart after in-flight refueling over the Pacific Ocean, Japan, on Sept. 9 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A solicitation to modernize the power plant of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter may come before the end of the year. Raytheon Technologies' [RTX] Pratt & Whitney F135 equips the F-35, but the F-35 program has said that the fighter will need a new or significantly upgraded engine with improved electrical power and cooling capacity to accommodate the 53 new capabilities slated for Block 4. Technology Refresh 3 (TR3)--spurred by the L3Harris [LHX] integrated core processor--is the computer backbone…

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