Raytheon To Upgrade Satellite Terminal; Receives Approval For NPOESS Antenna April 13, 2007 Raytheon Company will produce upgrade kits for its Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, or SMART-T, for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well as Canada and the Netherlands, the company announced April 12 The Advanced Extremely High Frequency kits, which will be produced under an $84.6 million contract, will expand the data rate of SMART-T systems by a factor of four. Separately, Raytheon received approval from the National Science Foundation to build a pair of antennas for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System Safety Net system at McMurdo Bay research station in Antarctica.  SafetyNet is a network of 15 sites and fiber-optic communications around the world. Construction will begin during the 2007-2008 Southern Hemisphere summer.

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