L3Harris [LHX] said on March 22 that it is looking for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of the company's Viper Shield advanced electronic warfare suite for Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 fighter aircraft. In January, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that the U.S. Air Force had picked the company to finish a new F-16 EW suite under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement for prototyping (Defense Daily, Jan. 11). While the Northrop Grumman EW suite beat out Viper Shield for equipping U.S. F-16s, L3Harris sees a significant opportunity abroad.
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