The Joint Broadcast Service Supporting Bosnia

<p>The DOD is developing the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) to answer the warfighter's critical communications needs. It features high bandwidth one-way broadcast of multimedia products to forward-deployed forces. As part of the proof-of-concept the DOD deployed the Joint Broadcast Service (JBS) to the EUCOM theater of operations to provide limited operational support to the UN peacekeeping effort in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author developed criteria for evaluating the value of this operational support and used these criteria to determine the value of the video data file and streaming data products as of November 1996. The initial effort was to provide Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle video to forward deployed commanders. The high impact nature of this capability was confirmed on at least two occasions demonstrating the potential for a very high value. However the success of the peacekeeping mission provided few opportunities for this high value to be realized. In contrast 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. As a consequence the software and tools necessary to implement the information management concept of operations were not available in November 1996. This resulted in generally low usage impact and value to the user. The one exception was the distribution of large format imagery files to Tuzla Bosnia-Herzegovina. From the factors contributing to the assessed value the most critical lessons learned become apparent.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>