 The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is now Investing $495 Million in Contractors complicit in building F-35 Warplanes by Richard Sanders, for the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, (updated May 26, 2017) |
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F-35 Contractor |
City | Country |
CPP Invest-ments 2017 (1) (in $Cdn millions) |
Contracts for F-35 (2) | Other locations (2) |
| Alcoa | Cleveland, OH | US | 11 | Aluminum Structural Die Forgings | Simi Valley, CA; Possible Alternative Locations; Lafayette, IN; Aluminum Lithium); Birmingham, UK |
| BAE Systems | Samlesbury, Lancashire | UK | 33 | BAE Systems provides the Flight Control Software (FCS1), the electronic warfare systems, crew life support and escape systems, aft fuselage, empennages as well as the horizontal and vertical tails; Aft Fuselage and Tails | Brough, Yorkshire, UK; Structural and Dynamic Test Facility); Adelaide, Australia; Vertical Tails, Rate Tooling, Input of Expertise into JSF Studies, Radar, TPS and Electronic Warfare Components); Edinburgh Parks, South Australia (Titanium Machining) |
| Boeing (a) | Australia | 118 |
Hawker de Havilland, Australia: Composite Parts and Subassemblies for the Center Fuselage) |
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| Honeywell International (b) |
Honeywell Aerospace (Yeovil, Somerset, UK) Avionics Specialties (Charlottesville, VA) |
UK USA |
66 |
Honeywell Aerospace: OBOGS Technology, Yeovil, Somerset, UK Avionics Specialties: Low Observable Air Data System, Low Observable Multi-Function Probes, Flush-Mounted Static Pressure Ports (Avionics Specialties is partnered with Honeywell) |
Avionics Specialties (Earlysville, VA, US) |
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ITT Corp. (ITT Exelis) |
Salt Lake City, UT | US | 11 | Composite Blade Seal Components | |
| L-3 Technologies | Rolling Meadows, IL | US | 29 | Crash Recorder/Crash Survivable Memory Unit, Panoramic Cockpit Display | |
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Lockheed Martin (Prime Contractor) |
US | 57 | Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the F-35. LM performs aircraft final assembly, overall system integration, mission system, and provides forward fuselage, wings and aircraft flight control system | ||
| Mahindra and Mahindra (c) | Port Melbourne | Australia | 19 | Airframe and System Component Machining) | |
| Northrop Grumman | Palmdale, CA | USA | 10 | Provides active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, electro-optical AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS), Communications, Navigation, Identification (CNI), center fuselage, weapons bay, and arrestor gear; Center Fuselage, Electro-Optical Dis | Falls Church, Virginia (Headquarters) |
| Parker Hannifin | Irvine, CA | US | 45 | Control Systems Division, Air & Fuel Division | Tolleson, AZ (Air & Fuel Division); Ayer, MA (Nichols Airborne Division); Elyria, OH (Nichols Airborne Division); Forest, OH (United Aircraft Products Division); Smithtown, NY (Electronic Systems Division); Fort Worth, TX (Stratoflex Division), Fueldraulic |
| Raytheon Co | El Segundo, CA | US | 36 | Space and Airborne Systems Headquarters, Integrated Core Processor, Digital Anti-Jam Receiver | |
| Thales SA (d) | Sydney | Australia | 24 | Engineering Support and ITC Design) | |
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United Technologies Corp (e) |
Pratt & Whitney Dayton, OH Hamilton Sundstrand Windsor Locks, CT |
US US |
33 |
Pratt & Whitney AFRL Compressor Research Facility) Hamilton Sundstrand Electrical Power Generation and Conversion System, Engine Controls, Gearbox and Externals for the Pratt & Whitney F135 Engine, Electronic Controls for Flight Actuation Systems) |
Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, CT (F135 Engine) Possible Alternative Manufacturing Locations; Middletown, PA; Middletown, NY; Clayville, NY; West Palm Beach, FL; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Possible Engine Assembly & Test Locations; Bridgeport, WV; Longueuil, Canada; Mississauga |
| Volvo Ab (f) | Kongsberg | Sweden | 4 | Intermediate Case, F135 Engine Shaft | |
| Total CPP Investments in these F35 contractors | $495 | (in millions of Canadian dollars) | |||
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Notes: 2 Most of this data comes from Bill Hartung, Promising the Sky: Pork Barrel Politics and the F-35 Combat Aircraft, 2014.
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