Pratt & Whitney today announced it is teaming up with IBM to enhance the engine fleet and health solutions. The partnership could provide Pratt & Whitney’s customer base with more time on-wing, current asset maintenance alerts and better insight into flight operational data. “By incorporating learnings from our military engines programs where we are pushing […] More

Tom Prete, vice president of engineering at United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. The academy recognized Tom Prete for his work in the development of Pratt & Whitney‘s aircraft engines and for his contributions to gas turbine propulsion systems, Pratt & Whitney said Wednesday. […] More

Pratt & Whitney has officially opened a maintenance, repair and operations hub for PW4000 aircraft engines in Singapore as part of a $110 million capital investment. The facility is located at the Seletar industrial aerospace park which already houses Pratt & Whitney’s component solutions business and global services engineering team, the UTC Technologies Corp. subsidiary […] More

RTX business Pratt & Whitney has announced a $20 million investment to increase by 40 percent the capacity of its West Palm Beach Engine Center to maintain, repair and overhaul GTF engines. The facility expansion, will result in a 25 percent workforce increase and the addition of new equipment as well as technologies developed at the North American Technology Accelerator, is expected to be completed by the second half of 2025, RTX said Wednesday.

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RTX’s Pratt & Whitney business has concluded a critical design assessment of its engine offering for the U.S. Air Force’s future next-generation air dominance aircraft. The milestone marks a key step in bringing the company’s engine prototype, dubbed XA103, closer to completing a detailed design review as part of the service branch’s Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, RTX said Monday.

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The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office plans to award multiple contract actions to RTX business Pratt & Whitney to continue the work started under the F135 Engine Enhancement Program, now called F135 Engine Core Upgrade. Pratt & Whitney had been working on the EEP as the sole-source awardee of the Engine Enhancement Preliminary Design contract, which was issued in 2022 and is set to conclude by February 2024, according to a notice posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney plans to invest $206 million to expand business operations in Columbus, Georgia, that provide geared turbofan engine support for military and commercial aircraft operators. Pratt & Whitney said Tuesday it expects to create 400 new jobs through 2028 under the expansion initiative and enable its local facilities to overhaul 400 […] More

Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies— now rebranded as RTX, has increased the number of team members working on the preliminary design review of the F135 jet engine core upgrade and is on schedule to finish the PDR and begin the detailed design phase early next year. The company said Monday that the […] More

Pratt & Whitney has broken ground on a new $255 million facility in Oklahoma City to support engine sustainment for various military aircraft platforms. The 845,000-square-foot site is part of Pratt & Whitney’s plan to combine six of its local operations into two, one of which is located in Tinker Air Force Base’s Air Logistics […] More

Raytheon Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney intends to invest $255 million over five years in a new 845,000-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City that will support depot operations for engines used to power several military aircraft, including F-35, F-15, F-16, F-22 and C-17. Pratt & Whitney said Friday the new Oklahoma City Sustainment Center near Tinker […] More

Marino Carducci, most recently executive director of commercial engines at Pratt & Whitney, has been promoted to vice president of military engine production at the Raytheon Technologies subsidiary. He started his career at Hamilton Sundstrand and managed engines and control systems there as a director, according to his LinkedIn profile. Carducci then worked at United […] More

Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More