Contract: UTC, $33.9M

United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $33,928,095 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-14-C-0026). This modification provides for retrofit modifications to the production thrust recovery, lift systems, and controller systems for low rate initial production VII F135/600 and F135/100 propulsion systems. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Okla., and is expected to be completed in December 2016. Fiscal 2013 aircraft procurement (Navy/Marine Corps and Air Force); fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy/Marine Corps); and international partner funds in the amount of $33,928,095 will be obligated at time of award, $19,920,721 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps (89.22 percent); the U.S. Air Force (24 percent); and the international partners (10.54 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/13/15)