Raytheon, an RTX business, won a $580 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Navy to produce more Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band systems.
The contract includes additional pod shipsets, spares and support equipment, with some pods going to the Royal Australian Air Force.
“Offensive Electronic Attack provides a tremendous combat capability, protecting strike packages, kinetic weapons and high-value airborne assets across a broad range of missions,” said Barbara Borgonovi, president of naval power at Raytheon. “With this contract, we’ll ensure that our naval aviators in all theaters are better prepared to counter adversary threats and support the Joint Fight.”
NGJ-MB is a joint U.S.–Australian program to develop and produce an airborne electronic attack system. It includes two pods with active electronically scanned arrays that emit in the mid-band frequency range. The U.S. Navy uses the system on EA-18G Growlers to disrupt advanced radar, communications, data links and other RF threats.
Work on the new contract will run through 2028 at facilities in Forest, Mississippi; McKinney, Texas; El Segundo, California; and Andover, Massachusetts.