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RTX Wins Another $581 Million Next-Gen Jammer Award

RTX Wins Another $581 Million Next-Gen Jammer Award
From left: Kennie Martinez and Marc Dannemiller, Raytheon Intelligence & Space employees, unbox the first of two Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band fleet representative pods that were delivered to the Airborne Electronic Attack Systems (PMA-234) pod shop at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md. on July 7, 2022. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy awarded RTX [RTX] a $581 million contract on May 15 for production and delivery of low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lot V Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) sets for the U.S. and Australia. In January, the Navy declared initial operational capability for the NGJ-MB (Defense Daily, Jan. 6). The overall NGJ program aims to replace the legacy ALQ-99 jammer on EA-18G Growler aircraft while dividing it into low, mid and high-band frequency increments. The mid-band portion proceeded to award…

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