Summary L3Harris plans to develop advanced low-band jammers. The new jammer pod increases jamming capability and range. The pod will counter lower-frequency radar threats effectively.
The Boeing EA-18G Growler will receive another Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) in the low-band jammer to address low-frequency threats on the electromagnetic spectrum. On August 26, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded a $587,386,007 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, production, and delivery for engineering and manufacturing development of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band program for the US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force Boeing EA-18G Growlers to be due in a year. The next-generation jammer low-band pod will address the growing threat from lower-frequency search radars.
“It’s about owning the spectrum” For L3Harris, a firm that works on defense communications solutions – and those communications are at lower frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum – working on jamming those same frequencies is a simple extension of current work. As more threat radar systems use lower frequency radars to search for low observable aircraft, the need to jam those lower frequency radars rises, so the radars are overwhelmed by energy and therefore cannot see. To assist in making threat tracking radars less effective, there is a Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) variant being put into service in Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Mid Band to address targeting radars.
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