RTX subsidiary secures $580M Navy contract

Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor RTX, has received a $580.58 million U.S. Navy contract, the Defense Department announced last week.

The award is a follow-on production contract for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band system, according to an RTX news release from Friday. Operated in a joint cooperative program between the Defense Department and the Australian Department of Defence, NGJ-MB is an airborne electronic attack system made of two pods containing active electronically scanned arrays that radiate in the mid-band frequency range.

The U.S. Navy uses NGJ-MB on the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft to target advanced radar threats, communications, data links and non-traditional radio frequency threats.

Under the fixed-price incentive contract, Raytheon will provide additional production NGJ-MB pod shipsets, including pods for the Royal Australian Air Force, as well as spares and specific support equipment. This contract was not competed.

Raytheon previously received a $590.8 million contract in December 2024 to provide nine NGJ-MB sets for the Navy and four more sets for the Royal Australian Air Force. In October 2024, Raytheon announced a $192 million award to develop an upgrade to the NGJ-MB system.

More than half (53%) of the work will occur in Forest, Mississippi, with 41% occurring in McKinney, Texas; 5% in El Segundo, California; and 1% in Andover, Massachusetts. Work is expected to be completed in November 2028.

RTX has more than 185,000 employees globally and reported more than $80.73 billion in 2024.