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DoD Awards Nearly $400 Million for F-35 Engine Sustainment

DoD Awards Nearly $400 Million for F-35 Engine Sustainment
Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

The Pentagon on Friday awarded Pratt & Whitney nearly $400 million for a contract modification that provides for performance-based logistics sustainment for the F-35 joint strike fighter’s engine system.Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], supplies the F135 propulsion system for all U.S. government and international variants of the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built F-35. The contract modification provides for maintenance of support equipment, common program activities, unique and common base recurring sustainment, field service representatives, common replenishment spares, conventional…

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