Raytheon has been awarded a contract of $42 million from U.S. Navy to develop advanced electronic attack system technology known as the Next Generation Jammer. The jammer will be replacing the current ALQ-99 jamming pods and will provide new capabilities to U.S. Navy‘s EA-18G Growler, F-35 aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.

"It is our top priority to provide innovative systems to protect U.S. and coalition forces from all threats, including advanced electronic threats," said Nick Uros, vice president for Raytheon's Next Generation Jammer program. "Continuing our heritage of providing combat-proven technologies, components of Raytheon's Next Generation Jammers will provide the power to protect as well as the most affordable and reliable electronic attack measures, assuring mission success."

Raytheon will be using its technology experts and airborne radio frequency systems that will help Raytheon develop its Next Generation jammers. In the technology maturation phase the jammer will be developed and tested to ensure its precision, power, reactive speed and directivity. Raytheon is leveraging decades of expertise to integrate a combination of agile, high-powered jamming techniques, based on combat-proven antenna array technology, and sophisticated, solid-state electronics in a design that doesn't place unnecessary weight on the aircraft.