WASHINGTON - Raytheon Co., is awarded a $650.4 million fixed-price incentive (firm target) and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the production and delivery of low rate initial production (LRIP) Lot III Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) Mid-Band (MB), to include 15 NGJ-MB LRIP ship sets (2 pods per ship set), 11 for the Navy and four for the government of Australia, as well as to provide associated spares, support equipment, non-recurring engineering and associated data.
Work is expected to be completed in April 2024. Fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $461.6 million; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $6.3 million; and foreign cooperative project funds in the amount of $182.4 million will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001923C0037).