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

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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