Jane Edwards
Raytheon has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $2.7 million contract to produce air management system components for the former company’s jammer pods.
CPI Aero said Tuesday it will manufacture AMS door and duct assemblies through 2018 in support of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Increment 1 Pod program with the U.S. Navy.
The new contract comes two months after CPI Aero received a $4 million contract from Raytheon to supply structural pod housings for use in airworthiness certification and testing activities related to the NGJ program.
The Navy awarded Raytheon a potential $1 billion contract in April to supply NGJ systems designed to replace the ALQ-99 jammer on the military branch’s fleet of Boeing-built EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
The service branch plans to install two increment 1 jammer pods on each of its 138 Growler planes during the NGJ program’s production phase, CPI Aero added.
