U.S. Navy to Test Raytheon Multiband System

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 19, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― The U.S. Navy is to begin testing a Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) satellite communication system made by Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN).

NMT is a system of submarine, shore-based and shipboard communications terminals for the transformational Satcom component of the U.S. Navy's FORCEnet concept.

Colin Schottlaender, president of Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems, said NMT had been rigorously tested and its performance verified. Raytheon also completed additional readiness milestones, including environment testing of NMT, two years ahead of schedule.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, on behalf of its organizational partner, the Navy's Program Executive Office for C4I, expects to award the NMT contract to a single performer in the third quarter of fiscal 2007.

Raytheon's NMT solution builds upon the existing library of stable, non- proprietary software in the Department of Defense (DoD). This software was developed and fielded by Raytheon in more than 900 military Satcom terminals delivered and used in global operations.

Raytheon's NMT provides warfighters worldwide connectivity through existing DoD satellites and also delivers technically advanced software solutions for new Wideband Global Satcom satellites, scheduled to be in service in 2007, and Advanced Extremely High Frequency due in 2010.

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