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U.S. Navy Wants to Field Next Generation Jamming Pods in Next Few Years, But Litigation Ongoing

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U.S. Navy Wants to Field Next Generation Jamming Pods in Next Few Years, But Litigation Ongoing
An EA-18G Growler, attached to the "Rooks" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 137, lands on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Adriatic Sea on Feb. 24., 2022 during a scheduled deployment. Russia invaded Ukraine the same day (U.S. Navy Photo)

In the next several years, the U.S. Navy wants to field Next-Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB) and Mid Band (NGJ-MB) pods for the service's EA-18G Growler aircraft by Boeing [BA], but litigation is ongoing between Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the Navy over the low band $544 million contract award to L3Harris [LHX] in December 2020. At the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference this week in National Harbor, Md., Rear Adm. Shane Gahagan, the Navy's program executive officer for tactical aircraft programs, said…

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