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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Navy asks Raytheon to build F/A-18 electronic warfare and radar systems in contracts worth $122.5 million

[F/A-18 Super Hornet]U.S. Navy aviation experts needed radar warning receivers, electronic warfare (EW) signal processors, and active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems for the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet carrier-based jet fighter-bomber.

They found their solution from two divisions of the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment.

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., last week awarded Raytheon two contract modifications collectively worth $122.5 million for 89 AN/ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receivers, nine countermeasure signal processor weapons replacement assemblies, and 16 AN/APG-79 AESA radar systems.

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