A 10-month legal battle over a $496 million contract for a critical airborne jamming pod is coming to a head. U.S. Navy officials were scheduled on or before Oct. 18 to file a sealed status report on the Next-Generation Jammer Low-Band (NGJ-LB) program in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, according to a legal filing. The document is expected to include a decision on whether Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) will honor the NGJ-LB contract awarded last December to L3Harris Technologies or heed a two-month-old recommendation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to reopen the contract to competing bids from L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.
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