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Raytheon’s Pratt & Whitney Holds Supplier Day on Capitol Hill for Proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade

Raytheon’s Pratt & Whitney Holds Supplier Day on Capitol Hill for Proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade
A F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 134th Fighter Squadron of the Vermont Air National Guard's 158th Fighter Wing takes off for a training mission from the Vermont Air National Guard Base in South Burlington, Vermont on Feb. 7 (U.S. Air National Guard Photo)

Raytheon Technologies' [RTX] Pratt & Whitney held a supplier day Feb. 28 on Capitol Hill for the company's proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter--an event attended by more than 80 supplier representatives from 24 states, Raytheon said. DoD's upcoming fiscal 2024 budget request is likely to lay out a future path for the engine for future blocks of the F-35. Raytheon is trying to build the case in Congress for the ECU, which…

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