Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Receives Top Regional Honor for Sponsoring Talented Minority Youth Interns

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Receives Top Regional Honor for Sponsoring Talented
Minority Youth Interns

CANOGA PARK, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has
been recognized by INROADS -- an international organization that helps
corporations develop and place talented minority youth in business and
industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. In
addition, two Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees who are former INROADS
interns were recognized by the organization for their achievements. Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne received the 2009 INROADS Sponsoring Company of the
Year Award at the Southwest Region's Annual Awards Banquet in Anaheim, Calif.
The company was honored for exceeding all INROADS expectations by its
commitment to the education and professional training of ethnically diverse
college students by embracing them in the corporate culture through INROADS
internships. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne sponsored 15 INROADS interns in the
Southwest region in 2009.

"Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is extremely proud of this recognition," said
Darold Sawyer, manager, Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity Programs,
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. "It demonstrates our ongoing commitment to
INROADS as a source for quality, diverse talent in the Southwest region."

Two Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees also were honored. Zanea Taylor, a
former INROADS intern who works as a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Human
Resources client manager supporting Supply Management, was nominated for
Business Coordinator of the Year and Alumnus of the Year. Former INROADS
Intern Tamuto Takakura was nominated for the Frank C. Carr Community Service
Award, named in honor of the founder of INROADS.

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
commercial building industries.

SOURCE Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

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