Raytheon Unit Receives $372M Contract to Update Navy Aircraft Software Interfaces

A business unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will update software for the U.S. Navy‘s Super Hornet and Growler aircraft systems under a five-year, $372.1 million contract.

Raytheon Intelligence & Space will modernize sensor, instrumentation and tactical interfaces that support software blocks of the F/A-18 and EA-18G fleets, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Eighty percent of work will occur in El Segundo, California, and the rest in China Lake, California; Goleta, California; Forest, Mississippi; and McKinney, Texas.

DOD expects contract work to conclude by June 2028.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division awarded the contract on a sole-source basis and will obligate funds upon issuing individual orders.