Nichols Martin
The Naval Air Systems Command plans to award United Technologies Corp.‘s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary a sole-source contract to help install updated auxiliary power units into the U.S. Navy‘s E-6B Mercury planes.
Work will cover APU installation, sustainment and engineering support for 16 E-6B aircraft units and training systems, the Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday.
The service branch noted that Pratt & Whitney is the only company with the technical data needed to perform the sought services.
E-6B is derived from Boeing‘s 707 airframe and designed to support airborne command, control and communications between U.S. forces and the National Command Authority.
