$580 Million Contract Awarded to Raytheon for New Navy Jammer

$580 million contract awarded to Raytheon for new Navy jammer

Electronic warfare is an integral part of modern combat. Allied jammers can deny enemy communications, impair the targeting of friendly units, and even hide them from enemy detection altogether. The U.S. Navy employs the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System on the E/A-18G Growler aircraft for its electronic warfare capability. Introduced in 1972, the legacy ALQ-99 suffers from poor reliability and system failures that have caused crews to fly with und…

Raytheon Wins $3.3 Billion SM-3 Missile Defense Contract - Overt Defense

In May 2025, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon (RTX) a major contract modification for its Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) air-defense system. The $2.13 billion upgrade raises the total deal value from about $1.2 billion to roughly $3.33 billion. Under this agreement, Raytheon will provide management, materials, and engineering support for multiple SM-3 missile variants used by U.S. forces and foreign military sales partners. The …