SAN DIEGO –Shipboard communications experts at the Raytheon Co. will provide U.S. and allied naval forces with secure satellite communications (SATCOM) capability under terms of a $16.7 million order announced last week. Officials of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego, are asking the Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems segment in Marlborough, Mass., to build Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) systems and spare parts. The NMT is a next-generation SATCOM system for the U.S. and allied navies that provides seamless assured connectivity between a ship's or submarine's computer network and the Global Information Grid. It is a multiband secure SATCOM terminal that provides protected and wideband communications.