Avionics
U.S. Navy Awards Raytheon $1 Billion To Build Jammer Models
Raytheon will build 15 engineering development models and 14 mechanical test pods of the Next Generation Jammer, its new electronic warfare pod.
Raytheon mounted a prototype of the Next Generation Jammer on a Gulfstream business jet. (Photo: Jim Haseltine/High-G Productions)
Raytheon mounted a prototype of the Next Generation Jammer on a Gulfstream business jet. (Photo: Jim Haseltine/High-G Productions)

The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $1 billion contract to build 15 engineering development models of the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ), its future electronic warfare pod. The contract calls for completing work in December 2020, in advance of the Navy beginning initial operations with the pod on the Boeing EA-18G Growler.