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Monday, July 14, 2014

The $10B Next Generation Jammer Is ‘On Track, On Schedule’

EA-18G GrowlerFarnborough is an air show, but many of the briefings scheduled by American companies this year focus on electronic warfare and missiles — not airplanes.

Raytheon, winner of the Next Generation Jammer competition, and the other four defense giants know that much of the money to be made in the next decade will come from upgrades and add-ons, not new platforms.

And much of the new money is destined for just the sort of technology the NGJ is sure to bring: the area where cyber and classic electronic warfare now merge thanks to digital technologies such as the AESA radar (active electronically scanned array).

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