The U.S. Navy has awarded the Raytheon Company’s Space and Airborne Systems Division a $27 million contract to provide a technology maturation study of next generation jamming capability. The Next Generation Jammer program will support the Navy’s airborne electronic attack requirements against current and future threats. Under terms of the contract Raytheon will use its unique combination of multi-beam jamming techniques and antenna array technology to produce a more effective jamming technology. According to Roy Azevedo, deputy VP in the Space and Airborne Division, a more robust, open-architecture jammer should provide “greater spectral precision, power, reactive speed, and directivity.” Work on this study is being carried out at the Space and Airborne Systems facility in Goleta, CA.See the original announcement on the Raytheon website.
$27M for Jamming
