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Pratt & Whitney Awarded $285 Million Contract Option for F119 Engine Support

Erin Dick
P&W Military Engines
+1.860.557.0122
erin.dick@pw.utc.com

Matthew Perra
Pratt & Whitney
+1.860.565.8938
matthew.perra@pw.utc.com

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 11, 2009 – Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a $285 million contract option from the U.S. Air Force to maintain F119 engines for the F-22 Raptor. This Support Program for the Raptor Engine (SPaRE) involves sustainment for fielded engines in 2009. Sustainment activities include spare parts, labor support, fleet management and technical support for the Pratt & Whitney F119 engine. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.

“We are very proud of our continued relationship with the United States Air Force,” said Tyler Evans, director, F119 program, Pratt & Whitney. “We believe this contract extension illustrates their continued confidence in Pratt & Whitney’s ability to meet their expectations in the areas of engine availability, reliability and maintainability while keeping their fleet at a high level of readiness.”

The F-22 Raptor is exclusively powered by two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines, and is the only fifth generation fighter in operational service. The F119 has logged more than 90,000 operational flight hours and features integrated low observables with high thrust-to-weight, allowing for stealth, supercruise and thrust-vectoring capability in the F-22. It also shares a common legacy with Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine, the only engine currently powering the fifth generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning future business opportunities. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to changes in the USAF's funding related to the F-22 aircraft and F119 engines, changes in government procurement priorities and practices or in the number of aircraft to be built; challenges in the design, development, production and support of technologies; as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in United Technologies Corp.'s Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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