
RTX's [RTX] Pratt & Whitney has received a more than $1.3 billion cost plus incentive fee contract for the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter, DoD said on Monday. The contract includes design, analysis, rig testing, engine test preparation, developmental hardware, test asset assembly, air system integration, airworthiness evaluation, and product support planning to mature ECU, the Pentagon said. In July, Pratt & Whitney said that it had finished preliminary design review on ECU (Defense…