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Global Broadcast Service

References

• FY2003 Report for the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation [19 MB PDF]
• DOT&E FY01 Annual Report
  
  
• GBS Industry Day Slides (Zipped Powerpoint Slide (728k)) Mar 96
• Question with Answers from Industry Day Apr 96
• GBS System Contract Sources Sought CBD announcement 13 NOV 96
• GBS Virtual Industry Day Briefing - Day 1 - 12 NOV 96 [Powerpoint Presentation]
• GBS Virtual Industry Day Briefing - Day 2 - 13 NOV 96 [Powerpoint Presentation]
• Mission Needs Statement for Global Broadcast Service
• Concept of Operations for Global Broadcast Service - US Space Command, 25 January 1996
• Joint Operational Requirements Document[JORD]
• Rationale for the JORD
• Joint Operational Requirements Document - Glossary
• Statement of Objectives (SOO) Draft RFP Section L 7 MAR 97
• System Requirements Document (SRD)
• System Requirements Document (SRD) Appendix A1 - Interim Requirements
• System Requirements Document (SRD) Appendix A2 - GBS Standard Link Budget
• DRFP Sec L, Atch 13: Acronym List
• DRFP Sec L, Atch 14: Glossary Of Terms
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR THE GLOBAL BROADCAST SERVICE (GBS) GROUND TERMINAL EQUIPMENT PRODUCTION
• Interface Requirements Specification (IRS) 1997
• Baseline GBS Link Calculation December 1995

• The Joint Broadcast Service Supporting Bosnia: Value to the Warrior and Lessons Learned Mark C. Biwer; Joseph H. Reynolds (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College March 1997 - Due to the rapid deployment of JBS to support efforts in Bosnia, the concepts, software and tools necessary to effect the "Smart Push" and "Warrior Pull" themes of JBS/GBS for data files lagged far behind the video. The one exception was the distribution of large format imagery files to Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• NAVY-TO-HUGHES VIDEO LINK DEMONSTRATES OPERATIONAL KA-BAND SYSTEM Dec. 18, 1998 - The U.S. Navy put its new Ka-band capabilities to use this week, demonstrating its Global Broadcast Service (GBS) in a video link with satellite builder Hughes Space and Communications Company.
• UHF Follow-On Satellite Successfully Tests GBS Video April 29, 1998 -- The Navy and Hughes team began testing the Global Broadcast Service payload onboard the UHF Follow-On F8 satellite last week at Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command facilities here on Point Loma.

• GBS Joint Program Office USAF Space and Missile Systems Center
• PM MILSATCOM GBS Phase II Terminal Acquisition
• A Demonstration of High Data Rate and Medium Data Rate Backchannel Potential for the Global Broadcast System - NRL
• GBS Navy Terminals
• FY98 Budget 0603854F Global Broadcast Service (GBS) (Space)
• Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD)
• JOINT WARRIOR INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATION 1996
• U.S. Army Signal Combat Developments
• The Global Command and Control System
• NASA's Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS)
• Main US JWID'97 Home page hosted by US Navy
• NATO JWID'97 Home page hosted at SHAPE Technical Centre
• UK JWID'97 Home page at the Defence Research Agency, UK
• Technology Insertion Office at AFCA