Joint Tactical Ground System

Abstract

The Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) is a post-production, Acquisition Category (ACAT) III program. JTAGS provides missile warning message data for the Air and Missile Defense (AMD) architecture and improves performance for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Fire Control Systems/Composite Army Air and Missile Defense Brigades. JTAGS disseminates near real time warning, alerting, and cueing information on ballistic missile launches and other tactical events of interest throughout the theater using existing communication networks, providing critical support to Combatant Commanders in their Areas of Responsibility (AOR). Four OCONUS deployed JTAGS units, which are deployed in three theaters (United States Pacific Command (PACOM), United States Central Command (CENTCOM), United States European Command (EUCOM)), constitute DoD's only in-theater system providing space-based missile warning. The fifth CONUS system is used as an institutional trainer, but is available as a deployable asset. JTAGS is designated as the in-theater element of the United States Strategic Command's Theater Event System (TES), supporting all Theater Missile Defense pillars, affording the shortest sensor-to-shooter connectivity. On 14 January 2016, the Army Acquisition Executive designated the JTAGS Pre-Planned Product Improvement (JTAGS P3I) program as a separate ACAT III modification program. The JTAGS Program Element (PE) supports development and testing of the JTAGS Block II Preplanned Product Improvements (P3I) program based on the JTAGS Operational Requirements Document (ORD), additive Joint Requirements Oversight Council - Memorandum (JROC-M) requirements, and the formal JTAGS Block II Capability Development Document (CDD) thresholds. P3I upgraded JTAGS to a Block II configuration for operation with the next generation of Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites, and improved warning tactical parameters and timeliness. The JTAGS Block II P3I program based on the 2009 JTAGS ORD is on contract as a two phase development effort. JTAGS Block II P3I Phase 1 is complete. The final developmental efforts of JTAGS Block II P3I Phase 2 to achieve 2009 ORD requirements will be complete in FY2021 with Follow-on Test and Evaluation (FOTE) and Materiel Release efforts to be conducted in FY2022. JTAGS Block II Phase 2 fielding is planned for FY 2023. The JTAGS Block II CDD addresses evolving User-driven needs such as emerging threats and interface efforts that were not known at the time the JTAGS ORD was validated. Developmental efforts to achieve JTAGS Block II CDD threshold requirements and implementation of M-Code GPS (IAW PL 111-383) continue through FY27. Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) requested funding of $13.379 million allows for the continued development of cyber compliance, defense against emerging threats, system materiel release, Assure Positioning Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) and M-code GPS compliance, addresses obsolescence mitigation with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware/software upgrades, and NextGen Polar Geosynchronous satellite interface efforts.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0208053A_7_2040_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) increase of $3.714 million is the result of a realignment from Program Element (PE) 1208053A - allows Joint Tactical Ground System (JTAGS) continue development of cyber compliance, defense against emerging threats, system materiel release, Assure Positioning Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) and M-code GPS compliance, address obsolescence mitigation with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware/software upgrades, and NextGen Polar Geosynchronous satellite interface efforts.
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Procurement
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Communication Networks
  • Control Systems
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Ground Control Stations
  • National Security
  • Positioning Navigation And Timing
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States European Command
  • United States Pacific Command

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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