
Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a $650 million contract to build and deliver 15 ship sets’ worth of Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) units as part of low rate initial production (LRIP) Lot III. The NGJ program seeks to replace the legacy ALQ-99 jammer on the EA-18G Growler aircraft by dividing the replacement into low, mid and high-band frequency increments, with the mid-band being the first increment. The Navy received its first two fleet-representative test articles last…