With lost orders comes challenges for F-35 motor maker

Pratt and Whitney, the maker of the F-35 jet engine, tries to keep a smile on their face.

However, with so many lost F-35 orders, the price of an F-35 jet engine won't be what was hoped for years ago.

Wishful thinking may also help some. Until reality hits.

He points out that total volumes over the life of the F-35 program have not been reduced, just stretched over a longer timeframe. “I think this will be like the F100 program [the engine that powers F-15 and F-16 fighters], which is now in its 40th year of production.”

Money to be made from cancelled defense programs

Programs get cancelled yet the taxpayer keeps handing over money; just a different color of money from a different budget....

The research is funded as part of a $380,227 supplemental grant awarded to The Town of East Hartford, with CCAT, from the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). The additional funding also supports further study of the diversification among F-22 and F-35 supply chain companies and the potential vulnerability they may have to increased defense cutbacks.