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Navy/USMC

Raytheon Progressing On Navy’s Future Jammer

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

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Raytheon [RTN] said this week it has moved forward in its development of the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) for the Navy, having successfully completed wind tunnel testing of a power generation subsystem. Raytheon said it housed the subsystem in a full-scale model of the NGJ pod to demonstrate power generation, transient load switching and thermal control of the unit. Several companies are competing in the NGJ program, among them the Boeing [BA] and ITT Exelis [XLS] team, Northrop Grumman [NOC]…

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