L3Harris Technologies awarded $587.39M Navy contract

L3 Technologies was awarded a $587.39M cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, production and delivery of electronic warfare test articles and fleet prototypes to include 11 pod simulators, eight operational prototype pods, four jettison mass model pods, two captive mass models, two mission system prototypes, and two technique development systems as well as engineering support, integration, test and maintenance resulting in a low-band capability in support of engineering and manufacturing development of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band program for the Navy EA-18G Growler and Royal Australian Air Force. Work is expected to be completed in August 2029. This contract was competitively procured via electronic request for proposal; two offers were received. Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity.