AARGM for RAAF Enters Production

15 Oktober 2022

AGM-88E2 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) (photo : Northrop Grumman)

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Inc., Northridge, California, is awarded a $35,587,641 modification (P00008) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N0001921C0044). 

This modification exercises an option to procure full rate production Lot 11 of the AGM-88E2 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), to include the production and delivery of AGM-88E2 AARGM All Up Round (AUR) tactical missiles; AGM-88E AARGM Captive Air Training Missiles (CATMs); AARGM guidance sections; AARGM control sections; High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) rocket motors; HARM warheads; HARM control sections; HARM G-Code AURs; HARM G-Code CATMs; and M-Code Global Positioning System receivers, as well as associated test equipment, containers, spare and repair parts, software, and logistical and program support for the government of Australia. 

Work will be performed in Northridge, California (60%); and Ridgecrest, California (40%), and is expected to be completed in March 2025. 

Foreign Military Sales customer funds in the amount of $35,587,641 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

(US DoD)