{"id":1475,"date":"2024-12-06T04:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2024-12-06T04:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:02:29","slug":"rtxs-raytheon-awarded-590-million-production-contract-for-next-generation-jammer-mid-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"RTX&#8217;s Raytheon awarded $590 million production contract for Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>ASIM, dec 05<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raytheon, an&nbsp;RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a&nbsp;$590 million&nbsp;follow-on production contract from the U.S. Navy for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NGJ-MB is a cooperative development and production program with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The contract includes delivery of shipsets, support equipment, spares and non-recurring engineering support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NGJ-MB is a revolutionary offensive electronic attack system for the joint force that puts a critical combat capability in the hands of our Navy warfighters,&#8221; said&nbsp;Barbara Borgonovi, president of Naval Power at Raytheon. &#8220;We&#8217;re working with the U.S. Navy to ensure NGJ-MB provides the advanced electronic warfare solution needed as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Navy and RAAF will employ NGJ-MB on the EA-18G&nbsp;<em>GROWLER\u00ae&nbsp;<\/em>to target advanced radar threats, communications, data links and non-traditional radio frequency threats. The system reduces adversary targeting ranges, disrupts adversary kill chains and supports kinetic weapons to target. NGJ-MB allows naval crews to operate effectively at extended ranges and attack multiple targets simultaneously with advanced techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work under this contract will take place in&nbsp;McKinney, Texas;&nbsp;Forest, Mississippi;&nbsp;El Segundo, California; and&nbsp;Fort Wayne, Indiana&nbsp;through 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASIM, dec 05 Raytheon, an&nbsp;RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a&nbsp;$590 million&nbsp;follow-on production contract from the U.S. Navy for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system. NGJ-MB is a cooperative development and production program with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The contract includes delivery of shipsets, support equipment, spares and non-recurring engineering support.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}