Pratt Wins $1.5Bn Order for F-35 Engines

United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is being awarded $1,509,856,423 for firm-fixed-price, incentive-firm target modification P00005 to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-15-C-0004).

This modification provides components, parts, and materials for the production of Low Rate Initial Production Lot 10 F135-PW-100 propulsion systems for the Air Force (44); Navy (4); and (9) F-135-PW-600 propulsion systems for the Marine Corps.

In addition, this modification provides components, parts and materials for (36) F135 –PW-100 propulsion systems for the international partners and Foreign Military Sales customers; (4) F135-PW-600 propulsion systems for the international partners; and (2) F135-PW-100 propulsion systems for the global spares pool.

Work will be performed in East Hartford, Connecticut (89 percent); Indianapolis, Indiana (8 percent); and Bristol, United Kingdom (3 percent), and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2019.

Fiscal 2015 aircraft procurement (Air Force); fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy, Air Force); international partner; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $1,509,856,423 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

This modification combines purchases for the Air Force ($558,411,024; 37 percent); Navy/Marine Corps ($352,871,638; 24 percent); International Partners ($350,171,923; 23 percent); and Foreign Military Sales customers ($248,401,840; 16 percent).

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is not, by any means, the only contract awarded for Lot 10 production of the F-35’s engine, but it nonetheless works out to $15.25 million per engine on average.
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), as always, said the prices of the F135 engines were lower than in the previous contract (this time, 2.6% to 4.2% lower) but, as always, it provides no specific prices to justify this claim.
US Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, who heads the F-35 program office, said "The propulsion system team has kept their word in delivering on their price reduction commitments for the F135 propulsion system, which is critical to making the F-35 more affordable for the U.S. military and our allies," Reuters reported July 7.)

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