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RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Receives $2.8 Billion for Lot 18 of F135

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 26th, 2025

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RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Receives $2.8 Billion for Lot 18 of F135

An F-35A Lightning II receives fuel from a KC-135 during the Red Flag Alaska 25-3 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska on July 25 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

RTX's [RTX] Pratt & Whitney has received a $2.8 billion U.S. Navy contract for Lot 18 F135 engines for the three variants of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II fighter. The contract includes production and spare engines for DoD and foreign nations' militaries, spare modules, program management, tooling, engineering and production support, Pratt & Whitney said. "The F135 program sustains more than 67,000 domestic jobs, 240 U.S. suppliers and contributed more than $9.1 billion to the U.S. economy in…

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