The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon $20.6 million for Next Generation Jammer program that aims to develop an airborne electronic warfare (EW) system, as a replacement for the AN/ALQ-99 found on the EA-18G military aircraft.
This modification exercises options to provide non-recurring engineering, associated technical, financial, and administrative data required to deliver Next Generation Jammer low-rate initial production ship-sets, a U.S. DoD release today said.
Work is expected to be completed in September 2024.