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Raytheon finalizes military broadcast bid
March 31st, 2009 | National Space Symposium | Posted by Ben Iannotta
A U.S. airman in Southwest Asia taps into the Global Broadcast Service.
Raytheon says it has submitted a final proposal to the U.S. Air Force to transition control of broadcasts by the military’s Global Broadcast Service to centralized computing centers.
GBS, which the Air Force describes as “Direct TV for warfighters,” transmits classified and unclassified videos and large files to U.S. forces by military and commercial satellite. Raytheon developed GBS for the Air Force and operates it.
In November, Raytheon announced it had submitted an initial proposal to the Air Force for the “GBS Satellite Broadcast Manager Defense Enterprise Computing Center” contract. Raytheon says it would transition “GBS broadcast functionality” to centralized Defense Information System Agency computing centers.