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Raytheon Nabs $650 Million Contract For 15 Next-Gen Jammers

Raytheon Nabs $650 Million Contract For 15 Next-Gen Jammers
From left: Kennie Martinez and Marc Dannemiller, Raytheon Intelligence & Space employees, unbox the first of two Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band fleet representative pods that were delivered to the Airborne Electronic Attack Systems (PMA-234) pod shop at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md. on July 7, 2022. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a $650 million contract to build and deliver 15 ship sets’ worth of Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) units as part of low rate initial production (LRIP) Lot III. The NGJ program seeks to replace the legacy ALQ-99 jammer on the EA-18G Growler aircraft by dividing the replacement into low, mid and high-band frequency increments, with the mid-band being the first increment. The Navy received its first two fleet-representative test articles last…

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