WASHINGTON -- Orbital ATK has won a $171.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for Lot 7 production of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM). This is award includes units and services for foreign military sales customers.
This is a modification contract that exercises a production option. This option covers the conversion of 271 U.S. Navy AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs) into 253 AGM-88E AARGM all-up-rounds (AURs) and eight Captive Air Training Missiles.
In addition, Orbital ATK will deliver 10 AGM-88E AARGMs to Australia. Work on this contract will be completed in March 2020.
The U.S. plans to procure over 2,000 AARGMs and is working on an extended range version.
Source: Forecast Intelligence Center
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Author: L. Dickerson, Missile Systems