A Navy P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane prepares for takeoff at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Sept. 27, 2023. CFM International was awarded a $47,775,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said this week. This modification exercises options to procure three CFM56-7B27AE spare engines, two for the Navy and one for the government of Germany, in support of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft, the Pentagon said. (Logan Beeney/U.S. Marine Corps)
(Tribune News Service) — A jet engine maker based in Butler County is winning big with a modification to a U.S. Navy contract.
CFM International, based in West Chester Twp., Ohio, was awarded a $47,775,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said this week.
This modification exercises options to procure three CFM56-7B27AE spare engines, two for the Navy and one for the government of Germany, in support of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft, the Pentagon said.
Work will be performed in Villaroche, France (53% of the work); Durham, N.C. (43%); and Peebles, Ohio (4%), and is expected to be completed next month.
Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $31.8 million; and foreign military sales customer funds in the amount of $15.9 million will be obligated at the time of award, the department said.
The contract came from the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md.
CFM International’s 50/50 parent companies are Evendale-based GE Aviation and France’s Safran Aircraft Engines.
Another regional company, Crown Equipment Corp., of New Bremen, was added as an awardee to a multiple award contract for material handling equipment, awarded July 22, 2022, the department also said.
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