L3Harris scores award for Navy’s Next Generation Jammer December 22, 2020 The Navy granted L3Harris a $496 million contract for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band pod , which will be mounted aboard EA-18G Growlers. (MC3 Gabriel A. Martinez/Navy) WASHINGTON — The Navy recently announced a $496 million contract with L3Harris for a portion of the Navy’s premier aerial-jamming platform. The engineering and manufacturing development contract is for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band. The Next Generation Jammer, which will be mounted aboard EA-18G Growlers, is the Navy’s and, by extension, the joint force’s leading aerial electronic attack platform. It will replace the ALQ-99 jamming pod and has been broken up into three pods covering three portions of the electromagnetic spectrum: mid, low and high. The Navy awarded the mid-band pod to Raytheon in 2016. In 2018, the Navy awarded contracts to Northrop Grumman and L3 Technologies to demonstrate existing systems as a means of buying down risk on the eventual program and awardee. The timeline and funding for a high-band post is unclear at this time.