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Home Contract Awards RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Secures $1.6B Navy Contract for F135 Propulsion Support
Author: Miles Jamison || Date Published: December 1, 2025
Pratt & Whitney‘s military engines business has received a potential $1.6 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide sustainment activities for F135 propulsion systems used across the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter fleet.
What Is the Scope of the F135 Propulsion Systems Contract?
The Department of Defense announced Friday that the undefinitized contract, awarded Nov. 26, covers F-35 propulsion systems support services, including:
- Program management
- Financial and administrative activities
- Propulsion integration
- Engineering and product management support
- Material and configuration management
- Software sustainment
- Security management
- Joint technical data updates
- Support equipment oversight
- Replenishment of spare parts
- Depot-level maintenance
- Training to ensure F-35 operational readiness
What Are the Other Details of the Contract?
The RTX company will carry out contract work at various domestic and international sites, with completion slated for November 2026. Major U.S. sites include East Hartford, Connecticut, which will handle 40 percent of the work, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with 21 percent. Other U.S. locations include Indiana, Florida and Texas. International work will take place in Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee and fixed-price-incentive-fee award, obligating over $150 million in fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance funds from the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, as well as foreign military sales funding, with $99 million set to expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
Related Navy-Pratt & Whitney Contracts
Pratt & Whitney received a potential $2.9 billion contract modification in August for F135 propulsion systems, a $1.3 billion contract in October 2024 for F135 engine core upgrades and a $221 million contract in September 2023 for F135 sustainment support.
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