Us Navy Kicks Off Jammer Bidding War

摘要

The US Navy has selected four companies to participate in a four-year, $430 million competition to design a next-generation jammer (NGJ) pod for the Boeing EA-18G Growler and Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. BAE Systems, ITT, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have each received a $6 million contract to hegin developing their concepts for replacing the 38-year-old ALQ-99 pod. The navy favours a solution hased on an active electronic array, but is not constraining any approach the bidders might take. "We've told them what we want, but not how to do it," says Capt Steven Koch-man, the USN's programme manager for NGJ.