Defense department report questions amount spent on F-22 spare parts

The Air Force could not determine if it paid jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney “fair and reasonable” prices for spare parts for engines that power the stealthy F-22 Raptor, a Department of Defense Inspector General’s report has concluded.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, based at Wright-Patterson, also could not determine how much it paid for individual spare parts under a $1.6 billion sustainment contract on the F119 engine on the fifth-generation, supersonic fighter jet, the report said.

The Feb. 10 report, released last month to the Dayton Daily News under a Freedom of Information Act request filed in February, recommended the Life Cycle Management Center develop a process to identify and document spare part costs to determine fair and reasonable prices and a plan with “defined milestones” to transition to a fixed-price contract.

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