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Lockheed Martin Receives $75 Million To Continue Work On Army EW Pod Program

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020

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Lockheed Martin Receives $75 Million To Continue Work On Army EW Pod Program

Lockheed Martin's electronic warfare pod on an Army UV-18 Twin Otter aircraft. Photo: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $75 million deal from the Army to move from prototyping into building an operational electronic warfare pod to provide jamming capabilities on unmanned aerial systems. John Wojnar, Lockheed Martin’s director of cyber/EW strategy, told Defense Daily the contract to continue work on the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare-Air Large (MFEW-AL) follows a successful flight test of a prototype EW pod during the first phase of the program. “In Phase 2 we will continue to advance the…

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