DISN Video Services for Full Motion Video

Full motion video from unmanned and manned aerial vehicles, ground and stationary sensors has been a mission critical tool and a force multiplier for OIF and OEF, providing real-time video for counter-reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition. The number of sensors in theatre today has resulted in the development of disparate FMV distribution architectures to support the dissemination requirements of specific users and operations. Because underlying systems and platforms were developed independently, and for varying missions; backhaul, collection, storage, and dissemination were neither synchronized nor standardized. This approach created a hodge-podge of solutions, each designed to their own environment, but poorly suited for integration into other intelligence and command and control architectures. In response to this problem, DISA is working to establish an Enterprise FMV program of record that will develop a unified strategy and architecture to resolve the common sensor reachback and dissemination problem for full motion video. The DISN video service for FMV will leverage existing programs of record, ongoing demonstrations and prototypes, and defined DoD and commercial standards to provide a shared service that integrates with the 2016 Vision for the GIG. The routing, ingest, processing, archival and dissemination of the video will be supported at the defense enterprise computing centers (DECC) and will leverage existing DISN services and new services like the unified video dissemination system (UVDS). The UVDS prototype, a funded defense acquisition challenge proposal supported by DISA and the Air Force, provides the basis for a DoD enterprise-wide, unified FMV architecture that will provide a common reachback transport, archival and dissemination for all full motion video.