Teaming follows recent mission systems integration success on Navy program
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 29, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) will team with the industry's best communication solutions providers
in pursuing the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the
High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3.
Raytheon's significant systems integration expertise includes its work
on the Navy's Zumwalt class destroyer program and its recent $1 billion
Navy Multiband Terminal win to provide the Navy's future multiband SATCOM
capabilities.
HC3, the next generation of Army SATCOM, is a family of reconfigurable
communications terminals that will provide soldiers with high-capacity,
multiband, multimode connectivity. HC3 will use current and future
satellites and will be integrated into the Army's future force
communications architecture.
"Our customer needs the HC3 terminals to provide greater capability to
the warfighter as new satellites come on line and as aging terminals
approach the end of their life cycle," said Jerry Powlen, vice president,
Network Centric Systems' Integrated Communications Systems. "Raytheon
brings more than 30 years of SATCOM experience to the team and a track
record of proven communications expertise."
The company's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal is a
precursor to HC3 and was the first of the military's Advanced Extremely
High Frequency, or AEHF, terminals to go into production in April 2007.
Teaming with Raytheon on the pursuit are L3 Communications, Northrop
Grumman Corporation and Agile Communications, Inc. Lockheed Martin will
also work with Raytheon on Army networking and logistics.
Each of these companies brings complementary, industry SATCOM expertise
to the capabilities of the team:
L3 Communications has significant high-capacity communications, AEHF
technology and multiband SATCOM experience, which includes such HC3-related
programs as Phoenix and Ground Multiband Terminals. L3 also brings
experience from developing the Network Centric Waveform for the U.S. Army's
WIN-T (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical) program.
Northrop Grumman brings substantial communications and network
management experience and insights from many related programs including
JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System); FBCB2 (Force XXI Battle Command
Brigade-and-Below); and Blue Force Tracking and Future Combat Systems. In
addition, Northrop Grumman has significant software-programmable radio
experience from development efforts on the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning
II programs.
Agile Communications will apply its C4ISR (command, control,
communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance)
system-of-systems engineering expertise to HC3. This effort is based on
similar work performed for the JTRS program including realistic simulation
and evaluation of network systems.
Lockheed Martin has extensive communications and network management
experience and offers insights from many related programs including WIN-T,
JTRS Airborne Mobile Fixed, and the Transformation Communications Satellite
Mission Operations System. Lockheed Martin is also the prime contractor for
several of the satellites required for HC3 communications.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 85
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.
Note to Editors:
HC3 is essentially one SATCOM terminal doing the work of five with the
ability to communicate using five SATCOM bands-C, X, Ku, Ka and Q.
Contact:
MB Hodgkiss
781.254.3428
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
MB Hodgkiss of Raytheon Company,
+1-781-254-3428
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