Raytheon Receives U.S. Navy Contract to Develop $1.6 Billion SATCOM System for Network Centric Operations

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Raytheon Receives U.S. Navy Contract to Develop $1.6 Billion SATCOM System for Network Centric Operations
    MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)
has received a U.S. Navy contract for the first of a two-phase process to
develop the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Multi-band Terminal
(NMT), the Navy's most advanced satellite communication (SATCOM) system. The
company's initial funding increment is $3.1 million; the program's total value
is expected to be $1.6 billion.
    NMT's first phase launches with a 30-month development period, during
which Raytheon will build AEHF SATCOM system prototypes. Raytheon will then
test their prototypes against competition in a simulated "fly off" to
determine final production award for the NMT system. More than 300 NMT systems
are scheduled for production through 2010.
    NMT will address three U.S. Navy requirements-expansion of bandwidth
availability, reduction of "top side real estate" and support to network-
centric operations via FORCEnet. The use of multi-band terminals is designed
to meet all three.
    NMT will replace several existing SATCOM communication terminals and
antennas. Additional benefits to the Navy include increased ship stealth
through decreased ship signature, or "footprint." The reduction of numbers of
terminals and antennas will further serve to reduce life cycle costs.
    NMT and its associated AEHF satellite constellation will offer four times
more protected bandwidth and throughput than current systems can deliver. This
improvement will allow naval commanders to "pull" more critical data from the
war fighter information grid and "push" exponentially more data into the grid,
than can be done today. NMT's heightened ability to move information will help
sailors to become full participants in FORCEnet.
    Rockwell Collins Government Systems (RCGS) is Raytheon's NMT teammate.
RCGS will lead the security certification process and provide essential
hardware. The company has more than 20 years' experience in developing
extremely high frequency communication terminals.
    Raytheon Company, with 2002 sales of 16.8 billion, is an industry leader
in defense, government and commercial electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people
worldwide.

    Note to editors:
    -- FORCEnet is an operational construct and informational architecture
       that integrates warriors, sensors, networks, command & control,
       platforms, and weapons into a network-distributed combat force. It
       allows the war fighters to compose joint military engagement packs of
       combined forces to participate in military actions and responses "on
       the fly." In addition to the immediacy of its response, it is also
       scalable across the entire spectrum of conflict, from seabed to space,
       and from sea to land. Additionally, FORCEnet will enable rapid
       reconfiguration of joint forces to respond to the next tasking in a
       composed manner.
    -- NMT will be designed in Marlborough, Mass. and produced in Largo, Fla.

    Contact:
     Patricia Perlini
     972.952.4033
SOURCE Raytheon Company
http://www.raytheon.com
CONTACT:
Patricia Perlini of Raytheon Company,
+1-972-952-4033