CAES has booked a U.S. Navy contract with a potential value of over $55 million to provide a transmitter for the service branch and Royal Australian Air Force.
Under the award, CAES will manufacture the AN/ALQ-99 Low Band Consolidation transmitter, a modified version of the earlier AN/ALQ-99 Low Band Transmitter that was used by U.S. and coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terror, the Arlington, Virginia-based company announced on Wednesday.
“We are proud of our longstanding partnership with the U.S. Navy on next-generation electronic warfare technology,” said CAES President and CEO Mike Kahn.
The LBC, he explained, adds key enhancements to its predecessor to address new and evolving threats.
CAES won the pre-production contract for the AN/ALQ-99 LBC transmitter in April. Work under the new award is expected to continue through 2025.
The organization has already produced LBTs for the Navy and RAAF EA-18G Growler Airborne Electronic Attack fleets. Over the past few decades, CAES has manufactured over 850 transmitters that can deliver high power spanning multiple octave bandwidths in the challenging environment faced by aircraft that operate from Navy aircraft carriers.
Earlier this year, CAES won another award from the Navy to support its SEWIP Block 2 initiative by providing spares, engineering services and repairs on antenna array panel assemblies. The contract was issued in February and is valued at $38.5 million over five years.
CAES was also contracted by Raytheon, an RTX business, in August to deliver fully tested radar module assemblies for the Navy’s AN/SPY-6 family of radars. The $200 million award extends a partnership between the two companies intended to help the service branch attain the benefits offered by modern radars.
