Contract: Raytheon, $14.9M

Raytheon Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Conn., is awarded a $14,895,376 modification (P00006) to a previously awarded, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N0001921C0068). This modification adds scope to provide for the planning, implementation, management, and reporting of sustainment affordability in support of initiatives that reduce future F-35 propulsion sustainment cost for the F-35 Joint Program Office. Work will be performed in East Hartford (61%); and Oklahoma City, Okla. (39%), and is expected to be completed in September 2024. Non-Department of Defense participant funds in the amount of $14,895,376 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, 07/26/22) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.