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Navy/USMC

Northrop Grumman and L3 Win Next Generation Jammer Contracts After GAO Denies Raytheon Protest

Friday, October 26th, 2018

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Northrop Grumman and L3 Win Next Generation Jammer Contracts After GAO Denies Raytheon Protest

An E/A-18 Growler electronic attack aircraft in the foreground shadowed by a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. (Photo: Boeing)

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded L3 Technologies [LLL] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] contracts worth over $35 million each to demonstrate and test technologies that may provide a solution for the low band part of the Next Generation jammer program.NAVAIR awarded the contracts on Thursday and come after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday denied a summer protest by Raytheon [RTN], which is building the mid-band pod of the Next Generation Jammer.GAO did not release a full explanation…

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