Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Receives $12 Million Contract to Design and Build Pathfinder...

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Receives $12 Million Contract to Design and Build
Pathfinder Divert and Attitude Control System for MDA MKV

CANOGA PARK, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Missile
Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne $12 million for the
first phase of a contract to design, build, integrate, and test a prototype
Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS) that will power two different types
of kinetic vehicles on missile interceptors. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company.

The Commonality Pathfinder DACS, as part of the Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV)
program, will allow the MDA to conduct controlled-flight hover tests on its
two kinetic vehicles. The Pathfinder DACS will use existing Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne propulsion system technology, which will significantly lower
development risk, cost and time.

"The Pathfinder DACS will allow the Missile Defense Agency to test the
avionics, software and sensor capabilities of the kinetic vehicles, simulating
the conditions of flight and demonstrating its ability to seek and destroy
incoming ballistic missile targets," said Bruce Janeski, MKV Commonality
Pathfinder program manager, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.

The Pathfinder DACS will be designed with a high-precision propulsion system
capable of positioning kinetic vehicles to destroy multiple incoming ballistic
missiles and countermeasures. The first test of the Pathfinder DACS is
scheduled for mid 2010, while hover tests on the two kinetic vehicle designs
are scheduled for 2011. The tests will be conducted at the National Hover Test
Facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred
provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system
solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications,
including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch
vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of
aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United
Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing
high technology products and services to the global aerospace and building
industries.

Bryan Kidder Carri Karuhn
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
818 586-2213 818 586-4963
bryan.kidder@pwr.utc.com carri.karuhn@pwr.utc.com

SOURCE Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc.

Bryan Kidder, +1-818-586-2213, bryan.kidder@pwr.utc.com, or Carri Karuhn,
+1-818-586-4963, carri.karuhn@pwr.utc.com, both of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne,
Inc.