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PE 0305179F: Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS)
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Exhibit R-2, RDT&E Budget Item Justification: PB2021Air Force
Date: February 2020
Appropriation/Budget Activity
3600: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Air Force / BA 7:
Operational Systems Development
R-1 Program Element (Number/Name)
PE 0305179F / Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS)
COST ($ in Millions)
Prior
Years FY 2019 FY 2020
FY 2021
Base
FY 2021
OCO
FY 2021
Total FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025
Cost To
Complete
Total
Cost
Total Program Element
- 0.000 8.728 8.864 0.000 8.864 9.050 9.212 9.377 9.549 Continuing Continuing
674779: Integrated Broadcast
Service (IBS)
- 0.000 8.728 8.864 0.000 8.864 9.050 9.212 9.377 9.549 Continuing Continuing
Quantity of RDT&E Articles - - - - - - - - - -
A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification
In FY2020 Integrated Broadcast Services (IBS) efforts funded in PE1203179F in FY2018 and FY2019, transferred to PE0305179F due to realignment of IBS to Major
Force Program 03, Intelligence and Communication.
The IBS fulfills the warfighter's requirements for worldwide threat warning and situational awareness information with timely production and simultaneous dissemination
of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) derived combat information. It also provides target tracking data to support threat avoidance, targeting, force
protection, and situational awareness. This information is continually refined in near real time by strategic, operational and tactical sensors.
IBS is comprised of the following:
- A Common Interactive Broadcast (CIB) on UHF (Ultra High Frequency) satellite channel using a Common Message Format (CMF) and a Military Standard (MIL-STD)
Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) compliant waveform and Line of Sight (LOS) using the Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) and Joint Tactical Terminal
(JTT).
- IBS-Network Services (IBS-NS) includes two Global IBS Network Servers (GINS) and four Theater Interface Nodes (TINs) to support the geographic Combatant
Commanders (COCOMs), all built to validated warfighter requirements.
-- Two GINS receive data from each theater and integrate this data into a worldwide picture available to all network/broadcast users.
-- Four regional TINs allow local and out-of-theater users (not directly receiving IBS broadcast) to receive the CIB information broadcast. Additionally, the TIN will
receive and inject data into the CIB for producers without access to the theater CIB.
This PE funds:
- Development/upgrades of IBS (IBS-NS, CIB, and CMF)
This project will identify and implement an open, scalable system architecture that will accommodate growth as the virtual world grows and cyber operations change.
This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver IBS weapon system capability. The use of such program
funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F.
This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been
fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
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