An updated engine support contract for the global fleet of Boeing C-17 strategic transports will deliver substantial savings to operators, Pratt & Whitney military engines president Jill Albertelli ...

Although the C-17 Globemaster III had its maiden flight in 1991, it took four more years until the first C-17 squadron became ...

The first C-17 Globemaster III Boeing produced took to the air in September 1991 and the United States Air Force had first dibs, purchasing a total of 223 of them. Boeing delivered the first C-17 in ...

Pratt & Whitney, Boeing and the US Air Force are working to improve the reliability of the F117-100 turbofan powering the C-17 airlifter following a rise in unscheduled removals and unsatisfactory ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Pratt & Whitney is completing its 1,000th F117 engine for Boeing’s C-17, and expects to continue building them up to around 2015. The 1,000th engine, a military derivative of the ...

Now that Elon Musk has acknowledged withholding satellite internet service to Ukraine, the U.S. Air Force secretary said the military needs commercial services available. “If we're going to rely upon ...

WASHINGTON >> The Pentagon inspector general has subpoenaed United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney engine unit, saying the company has repeatedly refused to document more than $1.54 billion in ...

Tech Sgt. Connor Oswald, a loadmaster assigned to the 4th Airlift Squadron, connects a fuel hose during a wet-wing defuel while Senior Airman John Soto, a fellow loadmaster, looks on at Thule Air Base ...

C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, while at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., taxi prior to take-off. U.S. AIR FORCE / STAFF. SGT. MARIE CASSETTY East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney has signed a $5.5 ...

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As enormous a military budget as the United States has, money is never infinite. It's being allocated in a thousand different directions, just like a household budget, but on a larger scale. As such, ...