Pratt & Whitney Wins $151 Million To Provide Engine Trainers For F-35 Fighter Jets

United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney is being awarded $151 million contract to provide engine system trainers, spare modules in support of F-35 fighters.

This modification contract also includes initial spare modules, support equipment and depot activation services and supplies in support of the F-35 Lightening II fighter aircraft, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Thursday. 

Work is expected to be complete in September 2019. 

Fiscal 2014 and 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force); international partner; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $151,664,883 will be obligated at the time of award, $35,825,147 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

This modification combines purchases for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, international partners and foreign military sales customers.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.