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Navy/USMC

Next Generation Jammer-Low Band May See Recompete, As GAO Sustains Protest

Frank Wolfe

Friday, September 3rd, 2021

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Next Generation Jammer-Low Band May See Recompete, As GAO Sustains Protest

A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler flies over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. (U.S. Navy Photo)

The U.S. Navy may have to recompete its Next Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB), as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Sept. 3 found that a Navy employee who was negotiating employment with L3Harris Technologies [LHX] helped write the specifications and had created the appearance of a conflict of interest. The Navy awarded L3Harris a $496 million contract last December to build four test pods and eight operational prototype pods under NGJ-LB Capability Block 1 (CB-1) (Defense Daily, Dec. 21, 2020).…

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