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Maintenance deal for Hamilton |
| Mon January 12th, 2009 |
By Howard French, HFrench@Journalinquirer.com
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Hamilton Sundstrand, based in Windsor Locks, for maintenance of its electronic controls on jet fighter engines.
The contract is worth an estimated $6.21 million to Hamilton, according to contract listings on the Defense Department’s Web site.
Under terms of the deal, Hamilton will provide repair and overhaul of “digital electronic engine controls, engine diagnostic units, and associated parts” on engines powering F15 and F16 fighter jets. The engines were built by Hamilton corporate sibling Pratt & Whitney, based in East Hartford.
Tinker Air Force Base, in Oklahoma, is the contracting base.
Hamilton also makes electronic controls for Pratt engines that power the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as well as the Joint Strike Fighter.
And in 2008, Chicago-based Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems division awarded Hamilton a contract to supply additional equipment for the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. The Osprey, powered by engines built by Britain’s Rolls-Royce, is capable of vertical take-offs like a helicopter, after which its engines can be rotated forward for conventional aircraft flight.
Hamilton supplies two generators, with integral control units, for each aircraft. The Defense Department in 2008 awarded the Bell Boeing program a $10.4 billion contract for multi-year production of up to 167 additional V-22 Osprey through 2012.
That brings the value of Hamilton’s portion of the project to about $90 million, according to a statement from Hamilton Sundstrand. The V-22 is in service with the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force Special Operations, and was deployed to service in Iraq in September 2007.
Both Pratt and Hamilton are subsidiaries of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp. |
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