Northrop Grumman Wins $39.4 Million Navy Electronic Warfare Contract
The Linthicum Heights, Maryland, defense contractor secured a cost-plus-fixed-fee modification for design engineering on Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block Three systems, with work due by August 2027.
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND — LEDE Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Mission Systems Sector, the Linthicum Heights, Maryland, defense contractor, won a $39.4 million modification to sustain engineering support for the U.S. Navy’s shipboard electronic warfare defenses, the service said on July 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET.
NARRATIVE The cost-plus-fixed-fee modification exercises an option under a previously awarded contract to fund design agent engineering support of Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block Three systems (see war.gov). Fiscal 2026 shipbuilding and construction Navy funds of $6 million will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work will be performed in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Block Three systems anchor the Navy’s effort to strengthen electronic warfare capabilities that protect surface ships from incoming threats (see war.gov). The program upgrades sensors and countermeasures that detect and defeat hostile radar and missile guidance. Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
The award is expected to be complete by August 2027, giving the contractor just over a year to deliver the engineering support. The modification builds on the original contract awarded in 2022, carrying forward a role Northrop Grumman has held across the program’s development. The company designs, tests and refines the systems as they move toward broader fleet deployment.
This contract represents the 7th contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Mission Systems Sector, in 2026, bringing the company’s total contract value for the year to about $1.59 billion. It is also the 47th Department of Defense contract awarded in Maryland during 2026. While this is not the largest contract ever awarded to the sector, whose record stands at about $1 billion, it is notable within the Navy portfolio. The award falls between the 2026 Navy portfolio’s year-to-date minimum of about $9 million and maximum of $8 billion. Overall, this award was announced among 13 Department of Defense contracts issued nationwide on July 10, 2026.
BUTTON Navy investment in shipboard electronic defense stretches back well before modern radar jamming. During World War II, U.S. warships first deployed electronic countermeasures against Japanese and German radar, a field that grew rapidly after the 1943 introduction of chaff to confuse enemy tracking (see britannica.com). The discipline matured through the Cold War, when the Navy formalized programs to shield surface fleets from radar-guided missiles. Contractors that carried those early efforts became the backbone of the sensor and countermeasure industry that endures in today’s Block Three work.
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