
The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris [LHX] a contract worth up to $947 million over 10 years for the company's AN/ALQ-172 countermeasures program and modernization. Work will take place at L3Harris in Clifton, N.J., and covers "engineering services for block cycle, non-block cycle and sustaining engineering services and for Air Force Global Strike Command enhancement modernizations," the Air Force said in a DoD contracts announcement on Aug. 31. The Air Force's 76 B-52Hs rely on a variety of electronic…