WASHINGTON — The Pentagon this week awarded Pratt & Whitney a sole-source contract worth as much as $870 million to sustain the Cold War-era TF33 engines that power the Air Force’s B-52H ...

The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will ...

Key Points: The US Air Force is upgrading its B-52H Stratofortress fleet through the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), creating the B-52J variant intended to serve into the 2050s. -This ...

Contract will support fleet readiness for NATO's "eyes in the sky" EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has received an $18 million TF33 ...

October 4, 2021: The B-52H, the oldest and most useful American heavy bomber, is finally getting its new engines, after using the TF33 since entering service. The new engines are expected to lower ...

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has secured a potential $870 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to sustain the global fleet of TF33 engines. The company said Wednesday it ...

Pratt & Whitney remains confident that a TF33 upgrade package it is developing would keep the fuel-guzzling Boeing B-52 bomber, an eight-engine goliath, flying into 2040 and beyond. The aircraft was ...

Senior Airman Josh Serafin monitors the ignition of B-52H Stratofortress engines at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Each B-52 uses eight TF33 engines to fly. (Senior Airman J.T. Armstrong/U.S. Air Force) ...

A B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft assigned to the 340th Weapons Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, takes-off during a U.S. Air Force Weapons School Integration exercise at Nellis AFB ...

October 4, 2021: The B-52H, the oldest and most useful American heavy bomber, is finally getting its new engines, after using the TF33 since entering service. The new engines are expected to lower ...