Global Broadcast Service

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The Global Broadcast Service(GBS) is a combined United States space and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) system, that provides a one-way wideband/high-throughput of information to forces garrisoned, deployed, or on the move. ^[1]. An advancement in satellite communications, GBS fills the two key military communications requirements: 1) high data rates to many users at once; and 2) high data rates to very small, low-cost user receive-only terminals.^[2] GBS is comprised of Transmit Sites (TS), broadcast satellite payloads, and receive suites (RS). Currently, the broadcast satellite payloads consist of three Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) satellites (K_a Band) and three commercial K_u Band satellites.^[3]

[edit] See also

• telecommunications
• communications protection
• electronic warfare
• radio reconnaissance

[edit] References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the U.S. Department of Defense.

1. ^ Fact Sheets: Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program: Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program
2. ^ Joint Pub 6-02, Joint Doctrine for Employment of Operational-Tactical C4 Systems, 01 OCT 96. Pages IV-4 to IV-5.
3. ^ Fact Sheets: Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program: Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program

[edit] External links

• Raytheon Company: Products & Services: Global Broadcast Service
• Federation of American Scientists - Global Broadcast Service
• GlobalSecurity.org GBS Phase II (U)