Two regional firms reap millions in Air Force contracts

A look at the testing facility where the F136 jet engine was being developed and tested for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team president Jean Lydon-Rodgers introduced the facility in this file photo.

A look at the testing facility where the F136 jet engine was being developed and tested for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team president Jean Lydon-Rodgers introduced the facility in this file photo.

Area firms are winning big new contracts with the Air Force.

A GE contract with the Air Force has been modified, according to the Department of Defense in recent days.

Also, Beavercreek engineering firm Woolpert Inc. has been awarded a ceiling $4.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for architect and engineering services.

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General Electric Co. has been awarded a $437,032,792 contract for designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing complete, flight-weight adaptive engines, the DoD said this week.

The contract modification is for the execution of next-generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction for air superiority applications. The work will be performed in Cincinnati, and is expected to be completed by March 30, 2022.

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Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $25,566,999 are being obligated at the time of award, the DoD said.

The total cumulative face value of the contract is $1,449,920,786. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is the contracting activity.

The Woolpert contract requires contractors to provide expertise for multi-discipline architect and engineer services to support Wright-Patterson.

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