Pratt & Whitney awarded $910 million contract for LRIP enigine from US Defense

United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney, Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $910,155,145 modification to convert a previously awarded undefinitized contract action to a firm-fixed-incentive-fee/cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. This modification further provides for the procurement of: -- 36 Low Rate Initial Production 4 (LRIP 4) F-135 Propulsion Systems, and -- 10 Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) propulsion systems, two spare engines, initial spare modules and spare parts for the U.S. Air Force; -- 16 Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) propulsion systems, two spare engines, initial spare modules and spare parts for the Department of the Navy (United States Marine Corps); -- one Navy STOVL propulsion system, initial spare modules and spare parts for the United Kingdom; -- four Carrier Variant (CV) propulsion systems, one spare engine, initial spare modules and spare parts for the U.S. Navy. In addition, this modification provides for associated engineering assistance to production, special tooling, special test equipment, production non-recurring effort, autonomic logistics planning and management, sustainment activities (i.e., site activation, site stand-up, production support, and depot activation), program management, and financial and technical data. Work will be performed in East Hartford, Conn (73 percent), Bristol, United Kingdom (20 percent), and Indianapolis, Ind. (7 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the Department of the Navy ($638,956,839; 70.2 percent), the U.S. Air Force ($222,506,542; 24.45 percent) and the United Kingdom ($48,691,764; 5.35 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.