Raytheon officials said the company successfully tested its Secure Mobile Anti-Jam Reliable Tactical Terminal with the Air Force’s on-orbit Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite. AEHF-1 has been in space since August 2010 and last month reached its operational position, allowing operational testing to commence. In this testing, SMART-T demonstrated interoperable communications using the AEHF satellite’s eXtended Data Rate waveform, moving data more than five times faster than previous EHF systems, said the officials in a company release. “This increased capability will provide our armed services with more mission flexibility and significantly increased capacity to provide protected voice, data, and video communications supporting strategic and tactical missions,” said Scott Whatmough, Raytheon’s vice president of integrated communication systems. SMART-T is in production and already fielded by the Army, according to the company.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…