NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Joint Strike Fighter engine maker Pratt & Whitney expects to submit its offer for the production of the seventh and eighth low-rate initial production lots of the F135 engine to the government this month, according to a senior company executive. LRIP 7 and 8 together are slated to cover the production of 80 engines, with 39 in the first year and 41 in the second, Bennett Croswell, Pratt & Whitney’s president of military engines, said in...
