....that will provide secure communications for the U.S. military and international partners. Raytheon's U.S. Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) is the second operationally fielded terminal to interoperate with an on-orbit AEHF satellite after the recent success of the company's U.S. Army Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T). The first AEHF satellite, launched in August 2010, recently began an extensive set of operational tests. NMT demonstrated interoperable communications using the AEHF satellite's eXtended Data Rate (DR) waveform, moving data more than five times faster than previous EHF systems. In addition, it demonstrated backward compatibility to low and medium data rate operation supported by earlier EHF satellites on the new AEHF satellite. NMT is in production and fielded, and like the Army's SMART-T system, ready to support U.S. armed services with the latest protected satellite communication waveform requirements when testing is complete.
Raytheon will field 308 AEHF NMT terminals to the U.S. armed services. The NMT system incorporates Raytheon's new XDR waveform hardware and software, a complex technological breakthrough in protected communications. XDR provides users with increased bandwidth and speed, enabling strategic and tactical military communications.