Three members of Connecticut’s Capitol Hill delegation, Congressman John Larson and Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have jointly announced the awarding of a $30.8 million Pentagon contract for Pratt & Whitney to produce F135 jet engines at its plant in Cromwell, Connecticut. The F135 engines are used to power F-35 fighter jets.
They point out that the F135 engine was selected in 2001 after a competitive bidding process for use as the powerplant for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. According to Larson, Republicans twice tried to switch to a different engine and stop using what Pratt & Whitney was building and in 2011 and 2023 those efforts were defeated. Larson estimated that taxpayers were saved up to $3 billion by sticking with Pratt & Whitney’s F135…
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