SAN DIEGO – Shipboard communications experts at Raytheon Technologies Corp. will provide U.S. and allied naval forces with secure satellite communications (SATCOM) capability under terms of a $20 million order announced last week.
Officials of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) in San Diego are asking the Raytheon Intelligence & Space segment in Marlborough, Mass., to build Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) systems. NMT is a multiband capable satellite communications terminal that provides protected and wideband communications.
The NMT is a next-generation SATCOM system for the U.S. and allied navies that provides seamless assured connectivity between a ship's or submarine's computer network and the Global Information Grid.
It supports extremely high frequency (EHF); advanced EHF low data rate; medium data rate; extended data rate; super high frequency (SHF), Military Ka-band transmit and receive communications; and Global Broadcast Service receive-only communications.
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The NMT is to be installed on about 300 U.S. Navy ships, submarines, and shore stations, replacing several existing SATCOM systems developed and maintained by Raytheon since the mid-1980s.
The new system will provide naval commanders and warfighters with data throughput capacity and protection against enemy intercepts, Raytheon officials say.
Raytheon has achieved protected two-way networked SATCOM for shipboard computer networks using low-, medium-, and extended-data-rate waveforms under the extremes of shipboard motion.
On this order Raytheon will do the work in Largo, Fla.; and in South Deerfield, Stow, and Marlborough, Mass., and should be finished by May 2022. For more information contact Raytheon Intelligence & Space online at www.rtx.com/Our-Company/Our-Businesses/RIS, or NAVWAR at www.navwar.navy.mil.
