The Navy announced Friday it had awarded L3Harris Technologies a $496 million contract for engineering and manufacturing development for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band program. The NGJ-LB is an external jamming pod, an electronic attack capability for the EA-18G Growler. Northrop Grumman competed for the contract with L3Harris, and the Navy evaluated both companies' technology during the Demonstration of Existing Technologies phase this summer. The contract is for the production and delivery of eight operational prototype pods, four jettison...
