High-Tech satellite network GBS will broadcast Superbowl to US Navy ships
The US Navy’s Global Broadcasting System, a satellite network similar to GPS, will broadcast Superbowl XLII to Sailors and Marines aboard ships in the Pacific, bringing them one step closer to home on Superbowl Sunday.
The Global Broadcasting System, developed by Raytheon, is a highly secure military satellite communications system used to provide high-speed top secret communications between government officials and decision makers. This Sunday though, in coordination with the Navy and the American Forces Radio and Television Service, the network will be used to broadcast Superbowl XLII.
"We are thrilled that our technology has enabled us to bring our deployed men and women a little closer to home through this broadcast," said Alan Goldey, GBS program manager for Raytheon. "Raytheon has developed and sustained the GBS program into what the Air Force has declared to be one of its best managed military satellite communications programs."
Without technologies such as this, communication between the Pentagon and mobile soldiers across the globe would be near impossible. Especially in the Ocean, high-speed wireless communications are limited to low-orbiting satellites or satellites in geostationary orbit.
Raytheon is a government contractor specializing in defense and homeland security technologies. Raytheon spent more than 10 years on the development of GBS, and currently holds two government contracts for satellite communications valued at over $500 million. Raytheon employs more than 72,000 people worldwide, and is based out of Waltham, Mass.
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