A benefit of this approach would be that front-line tactical users, such as forward deployed forces or remotely piloted aircraft, could execute missions more securely and reliably than is now done in environments where communications can be jammed.

Using a modem that is significantly smaller and less expensive, the demonstration involved showing key elements of the protected tactical waveform similar to Advanced Extremely High Frequency, one of the military‘s most complex. Raytheon leveraged its position as the only provider of AEHF satellite terminals to three branches of the military to show that it can provide an affordable protected tactical solution.