ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Raytheon said it will work with other companies to provide HC3 satellite communications for the U.S. Army.
The company said in a statement it would "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," the company said.
"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," Raytheon said.
"Our customer needs the HC3 terminals to provide greater capability to the war fighter 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 said it would be working on the project with L3 Communications, Northrop Grumman Corp. and Agile Communications Inc. "Lockheed Martin will also work with Raytheon on Army networking and logistics," it said.
"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," Raytheon said.
Northrop Grumman had developed its expertise on the JTRS, or Joint Tactical Radio System; FBCB2, or Force XXI Battle Command Brigade-and-Below; and Blue Force Tracking and Future Combat Systems programs, it said.
"Agile Communications will apply its C4ISR -- command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance -- system-of-systems engineering expertise to HC3," Raytheon said.
