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Raytheon Wins $180 Million Joint Stand-Off Weapon Missiles Contract For U.S. Navy And Saudi Arabia

Monday, July 27th, 2015

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Raytheon Wins $180 Million Joint Stand-Off Weapon Missiles Contract For U.S. Navy And Saudi Arabia

An F-16C Fighting Falcon releases an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) over the Utah Test and Training Range. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The Navy on Friday awarded Raytheon [RTN] a contract worth over $180 million for AGM-154 Unitary Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) missiles for the service and Saudi Arabia, the Defense Department said.The firm-fixed-price contract contains 200 full rate production Lot 11 (FRP-11) AGM-154C-1 Unitary JSOW missiles for the U.S. and 355 AGM-154 Block III C Unitary JSOW missiles for Saudi Arabia. It includes associated supplies and services.The JSOW is a family of air-to-ground missiles that include GPS-inertial navigation systems and a…

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