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View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3909.vid Any expansion of surveillance and broadcast services (like weather and aeronautical information) requires a business case with documented operational needs and a positive benefit to cost justification. Both Air Traffic Control (ATC) and the user community in Alaska have documented a series of shortfalls that additional services could address; however, costs for installation and maintenance in these remote (and often mountainous) areas of Alaska are relatively high compared to the contiguous United States (CONUS). Most historical benefits cases for increased surveillance or services rely on high density airspace or services to airports with several thousand annual scheduled air transport operations. The proposed service volumes have no large commercial airports and most large air transport aircraft that do touch the region are high-altitude overflights. While the underlying areas depend heavily on aviation for basic services, much of that traffic is flown by small operators that often fly using Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and whose operations are not well recorded by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) databases. Given these limitations, the Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) program has had to combine multiple approaches to estimate surveillance and broadcast service benefits. This paper describes calculations for three benefit mechanisms used to justify additional surveillance and broadcast services: Increased efficiency in Class A airspace, more efficient airport arrival/departure services, and increased safety for equipped aircraft.