Navy awards RTX subsidiary $590.8M contract for electronic attack system

The Navy has awarded Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor RTX, a $590.8 million contract to produce nine Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) ship sets for the military branch’s EA-18 Growler electronic warfare aircraft and four more sets for the Royal Australian Air Force, the U.S. Department of Defense announced last week.

The NGJ-MB is an electronic attack system. The award, which is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, includes associated spares, support equipment and non-recurring engineering.

Raytheon employees will perform 48% of the work in Forest, Mississippi; 43% in McKinney, Texas; 7% in El Segundo, California; 2% in Andover, Massachusetts; and 1% in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to the announcement. The work is expected to be completed January 2028.

The Navy will pay Raytheon $329.6 million in fiscal 2024 and about $75 million in fiscal 2025, while the Royal Australia Air Force will pay more than $185.9 million at the time of the award.

In October, Raytheon announced a $192 million award from the Navy to develop the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Expansion, an upgrade to the NGJ-MB system. The modification is designed to extend the system’s frequency range and provide additional capabilities to improve operational effectiveness.

With more than 185,000 employees globally, RTX reported $68.9 billion in sales in 2023.