Pentagon Contract Announcement

United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney, Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $332,102,095 modification to a previously awarded cost plus incentive fee contract (N00019-07-C-0098) to establish the final price and provide full funding for the procurement of seven U.S. Air Force conventional take off and landing propulsion systems, one initial spare module, initial spare parts, and six U.S. Navy Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) propulsion systems, and associated special tooling and special test equipment, program management, and financial and technical data.>> Additionally, this modification establishes an option for one spare Navy STOVL propulsion system; one STOVL initial spare module; STOVL initial spare parts and associated sustainment effort; future LRIP proposal and planning effort; and United Kingdom site activation effort.>> Work will be performed East Hartford, Conn., (73 percent); Bristol, United Kingdom, (17 percent); and Indianapolis, Ind., (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in Feb. 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.>> The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.>> -ends->