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U.S. Navy Expects Go Ahead Soon on Next Generation Jammer-Low Band

U.S. Navy Expects Go Ahead Soon on Next Generation Jammer-Low Band
Last year, the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band team conducted the final demonstration of existing technologies testing on prototype pods from L3Harris and Northrop Grumman simultaneously at the Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurement--the FARM (shown here)-- and Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility, located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. (U.S. Navy photo)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The U.S. Navy expects the Government Accountability Office to sustain the service's award last December to L3Harris Technologies [LHX] over competitor Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB). That $496 million contract is for L3Harris to build four test pods and eight operational prototype pods (Defense Daily, Dec. 21, 2020). "The EMD [engineering and manufacturing development] contract is under protest and has been since earlier this year," Navy Capt. Michael Orr, the program manager for…

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