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Print Edition StoriesThursday, February 12, 2009
Pratt & Whitney lands a $285M Air Force deal
By Mass High Tech Staff
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Pratt & Whitney with a $285 million contract to provide maintenance for its F119 engines and the F-22 Raptor fighter plane.
Under terms of the deal, the company, a subsidiary of East Hartford, Conn.-based United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), will provide maintenance and support of spare parts, fleet management, labor support and technical support for the F119 engine, Pratt & Whitney officials said. The work is part of the Support Program for the Raptor Engine.
The F119 engines, which power the F-22 Raptor and have more than 90,000 flight hours logged, feature a high thrust-to-weight ratio, company officials report. Last month, the company signed a $7 million deal with the Air Force to provide eight F119 engines for the F-22 Raptors.
Pratt & Whitney took in two big deals last fall, totalling almost $1.6 billion. In November, the company landed a contract worth a potential $185 million from the Air Force to develop engines intended to affordably operate at 10 times the turbo-propulsion capability of current aircraft engines. The contract calls for the technology to be developed by 2017. In October, Pratt & Whitney won a contract potentially worth $1.4 billion from the Boeing Co. Under the Boeing deal, Pratt & Whitney will provide engine maintenance for the C-17 aircraft fleet, including fleet management support, configuration control, thrust reversers and engine wash services for 800 F117 engines.
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