Raytheon Led Industry Team to Pursue US Army HC3 Satellite Communications

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.

Source: Raytheon Teams with Industry Best To Pursue Army Satellite Communications Program