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Northrop Grumman Receives $153 Million In Contracts For AARGM Lots 10 and 11

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

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Northrop Grumman Receives $153 Million In Contracts For AARGM Lots 10 and 11

An AGM-88E2 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) is launched from an F/A-18 during testing. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

As of November, the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] $153 million total in contracts for full-rate production of Lots 10 and 11 of the AGM-88E2 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) for the U.S. and Germany. The Navy initially awarded Northrop Grumman a $95 million contract to procure full-rate production of Lot 10 AARGMs in August. That award included the conversion of 87 government-provided AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs) and converting 40 Germany Air Force HARMs into 127 total AGM-88E…

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