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Record Date: September 11, 2024

High-Tech Upgrade: General Atomics Secures $77.4 Million for Advanced EW Assets on MQ-9A Drones

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, is awarded a not-to-exceed $77,411,744, undefinitized, firm-fixed-price contract (N0001924F5559) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001922G0006). This order procures electronic warfare (EW) production assets for deployment on the MQ-9A block 25 Unmanned Aerial Systems to include four EW alternating current pods, one direct current pod, eight EW aircraft kits, 13 ground control station (GCS) kits, four thresher kits, eight maintenance laptops, 20 maintenance toolkits, associated lots of aircraft, GCS, EW pod, and thresher spares as well as systems engineering services in support of the Marine Air Ground Task Force Unmanned Expeditionary Medium Altitude Long Endurance program for the Navy. Work will be performed in Greenville, Texas (70%); and Poway, California (30%), and is expected to be completed by February 2027. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $57,715,906 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.