Thursday, July 2, 2020

Contract: UTC, $21.2M

United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is awarded a $21,227,308 modification (P00021) to previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract N00019-18-C-1021. This modification exercises an option to procure additional Lot 15 F135 propulsion systems long lead components, parts and materials in support of the Navy, the Marine Corps and the governments of the United Kingdom and Italy’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Ind. (80%); and Bristol, United Kingdom (20%), and is expected to be completed by November 2022. Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $15,171,706; and non-Department of Defense participant funds in the amount $6,055,602 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/01/20) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center.