Raytheon has received a $580 million follow-on production contract from the U.S. Navy for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system, an airborne electronic attack system that will be deployed on carrier-based Boeing Growler jets.
Under the contract, Raytheon will provide additional production NGJ-MB “pod shipsets,” including pods for the Royal Australian Air Force, along with spares and additional support equipment. (The NGJ-MB project is a cooperative development and production program being conducted by the U.S. Navy with the RAAF.)
Work under the contract will take place at Raytheon facilities in McKinney, as well as in three other U.S. cities: Forest, Mississippi; El Segundo, California; and Andover, Massachusetts. The work will be performed through 2028, said RTX, the parent company of Arlington, Virginia-based Raytheon.
Raytheon has North Texas facilities in McKinney, Richardson, and Dallas
“Offensive Electronic Attack provides a tremendous combat capability, protecting strike packages, kinetic weapons and high-value airborne assets across a broad range of missions,” Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon, said in a statement. “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.”
Earlier contract awards
In December, we reported that Raytheon had been awarded a $590 million Navy follow-on contract for the same project—a technology upgrade to the current Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system, also developed by Raytheon. Two months earlier, Raytheon was awarded a $192 million Navy contract for the project.
The Next Generation Jammer is an airborne electronic attack system that consists of two pods containing active electronically scanned arrays that radiate in the mid-band frequency range.
The new modification extends the frequency range of the NGJ-MB system to counter additional threats, Raytheon said, and provides “additional capabilities to improve operational effectiveness.”
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The "revolutionary" airborne electronic attack system is slated to be deployed on carrier-based Boeing Growler jets. Work under the contract will take place in McKinney and three other U.S. cities, Raytheon parent RTX said.
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Raytheon's Next Generation Jammer-MBX is an airborne electronic attack system carried by the Boeing EA-18G Growler, a carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft. Work on the upgraded system will take place in Dallas and three other U.S. cities "through 2027," Raytheon said.
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