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- Wynne, Moseley Say They Personally Support Second Engine For Joint Strike Fighter
- By Emelie Rutherford Air Force leaders told Senate authorizers yesterday they personally support funding a second-engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter JSF, citing cost as the sole rationale for the effort's absence from the Pentagon's fiscal year 2009 requested budget. In recent years,...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- GE, Rolls-Royce Beat Out Pratt & Whitney For Advanced Engine Work
- By Michael Sirak The Air Force earlier this week took the next step toward maturing the technologies that will enable a new breed of high-performance variable-cycle engines for combat aircraft by awarding General Electric [GE] and Rolls-Royce multi-million-dollar developmental contracts. The two engine companies beat...
- Research articles 2007-08-17
- Air Force Awards F-22 Multiyear Contracts To Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney
- The Air Force yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Pratt & Whitney [UTX] multiyear contracts worth more than $6 billion for the production of the next three tranches of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft and its F119 engines. "The Air Force's efforts at streamlining the...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Pratt & Whitney
- Pratt & Whitney, in partnership with the United States Air Force and the Egyptian Air Force, has opened an F100 engine line at the Helwan Depot located at the Helwan Air Base in Egypt. The Egyptian Air Force's F-16 fleet is powered by the F100-PW220/220E propulsion systems. As part of...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Air Force Eyes Pratt & Whitney Engine-Wash System To Reduce Its Fuel Costs
- By Michael Sirak The Air Force plans later this month to begin evaluating an environmentally friendly system developed by Pratt & Whitney [UTX] to wash the cores of large aircraft engines, thereby improving their fuel-burn efficiency, according to service and company officials. Since greater fuel-burn...
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Pratt & Whitney Offers Air Force Upgrades To TF-33 Engines On B-52H Bomber
- By Michael Sirak HARTFORD, Conn.-- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] is discussing with the Air Force the possibility of upgrading the company's TF33 turbofan engines that power the service's venerable B-52H bomber aircraft, senior company officials said yesterday. "It is a proposal on the table," Tom...
- Research articles 2007-03-29
- Wynne: Debut of Engine With Unique ID Marks 'New Wave' of Inventory Control
- By Michael Sirak The debut last week of Pratt & Whitney's [UTX] F119 high-performance fighter engine fitted with the Department of Defense's new Unique Identification UID markings represents a significant milestone in allowing the Air Force as well as industry and the Pentagon's logistics community overall...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Boeing Selects Pratt To Power KC-767 Aerial Refueling Tanker Aircraft
- By Dave Ahearn Boeing [BA] chose Pratt & Whitney to supply engines for the KC-767 aerial refueling tanker aircraft, assuming that the Air Force picks Boeing to supply the planes, the company said yesterday. Boeing is to submit its proposal to supply the aircraft next month,...
- Research articles 2007-03-13
- Boeing To Provide Four C-17s To Australia Air Force
- Boeing [BA] yesterday was awarded a $780 million firm-fixed price contract for four C-17 aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force. This is an undefinitized contract action for a foreign military sales delivery order contract. The C-17 system group, in accordance with air mobility command, has ...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Air Force Awards Pratt & Whitney $120 Million For JSF Engines
- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] was awarded a $120 million ceiling-priced cost- plus-incentive-fee, award-fee contract for the low-rate initial product LRIP lot 1 procurement of five F-135 propulsion systems for the Air Force Joint Strike Fighter JSF F-35A Conventional Take-Off and Landing Aircraft, according to the company. ...
- Research articles 2006-04-25
- Pratt & Whitney Receives Lot 4 Production Contract From Air Force For F119 Engines
- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] said yesterday it was awarded a $431 million contract from the Air Force for the Lot 4 production run of F119 engines and accompanying engine support services for Lockheed Martin's [LMT] F/A-22 fighter. According to a Pratt & Whitney statement, this award adds to a...
- Research articles 2004-06-02
- Pratt & Whitney and GE Leveraging Current Work To Secure KC-767 Engine Bid
- By Lorenzo Cortes Both Pratt & Whitney [UTX] and General Electric [GE] are leveraging their experience providing engines and accompanying support for Air Force aircraft already in service to win the bid to build engines for the Air Force's planned lease of 100 Boeing [BA] KC-767 tankers, according to...
- Research articles 2003-05-30
- Pratt & Whitney Awarded $481 Million For F119 Engines
- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] said yesterday it was awarded a $481 million supplemental contract by the Air Force to produce 40 F119 engines for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F/A-22 fighter program. "Pratt & Whitney is pleased that the Air Force continues to demonstrate its confidence in the F/A-22 fighter...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Air Force Approves Support System Release For Pratt & Whitney's F119 Engines
- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] said yesterday the Air Force has approved the support system release SSR for the F119-PW-100 engine that powers the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F/A-22 fighter. SSR was approved after a five-year period of validation and verification evaluations. The approval of SSR clears the engine's field support...
- Research articles 2003-03-19
- GE, Pratt & Whitney Look To Air Force, South Korea, Israel For Engine Orders
- By Neil Baumgardner Following the recent completion of a series of high-value orders, rivals General Electric [GE] and Pratt & Whitney [UTX] are looking to the U.S. Air Force, South Korea, and Israel for future F-16 and F-15 aircraft engine sales, according to company officials. One of the...
- Research articles 2000-09-18
- Air Force Accelerating F-16 Engine Retrofits
- By Frank Wolfe The Air Force is accelerating a series of six retrofits for the Pratt & Whitney [UTX] and General Electric [GE] engines that power the service's F-16 fighter, as well as continuing to pursue other engine fixes to solve known safety problems. "All the retrofits are...
- Research articles 1999-11-12
- PRATT & WHITNEY, SIKORSKY TO REDUCE WEST PALM BEACH WORK
- By David Atkinson and Hunter Keeter Pratt & Whitney [UTX] and Sikorsky [UTX] are moving major military engine and development programs out of their West Palm Beach, Fla., locations, despite Air Force concerns that the move could interrupt the flow of engines for its aircraft. "Pratt & Whitney...
- Research articles 1999-08-13
- OEMs: partners or competitors?
- Some MRO providers see the Original Equipment manufacturers' push into the maintenance market as a threat; others are teaming with OEMs to cut costs Statistics issued by US aviation analysts, The Canaan Group, show revenue generated by the world's maintenance, repair and overhaul MRO industry topped $47 billion in...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
- YF-22 to USAF Museum
- The YF-22 prototype for the USAF's new F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter was turned over to the USAF Museum on 31 March. In 1981, the Air Force developed requirements for a new air superiority fighter. It would take advantage of new technologies then on the horizon, including the use of...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- P&W STARTS TESTING ENGINE FOR BOEING's JSF
- Pratt & Whitney [UTX] on Sunday began testing its JSF119-614 engine that will power Boeing's [BA] X-32 Joint Strike Fighter JSF concept demonstrator aircraft, Pratt & Whitney said yesterday.Earlier this month, Pratt & Whitney began testing its JSF119-611 engine that will power Lockheed Martin's [LMT] X-35 JSF concept demonstrator (Defense...
- Research articles 1998-06-23
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