Boeing FAB-T Demonstrates High-Data-Rate Communications with AEHF Satellite Test Terminal
The demonstration, conducted in August at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, CA, involved a FAB-T unit and an AEHF Universal System Test Terminal (AUST-T) communicating through a ground AEHF payload. Using the latest program hardware, the terminal team successfully conducted extended data rate (XDR) re-key, XDR text communications, and dual FAB-T log-on with the AEHF payload. In separate testing essential to operating the fielded FAB-T system, Boeing also interfaced with the AEHF Satellite Mission Control Subsystem, demonstrating XDR capability with the AEHF ground satellite.FAB-T's XDR capability will be anti-jamming, have a low probability of interception (LPI), low probability of detection (LPD), and improved data rates compared with earlier systems and software."These demonstrations are key progress indicators toward the start of functional qualification tests and increase warfighter confidence that FAB-T will support the required missions," Geery said.Boeing is working to provide the Air Force with a fully capable system that supports the existing Milstar satellite constellation, its ground and airborne command-and-control terminals and the new AEHF satellite constellation. The program continues to make measurable progress against its planned baseline.
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