Global Combat Support System

Abstract

The Global Combat Support System-Joint (GCSS-J) is an information technology (IT) application that continues to transition to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to deliver joint logistics asset visibility to the warfighter. GCSS-J facilitates information interoperability across and between Combat Support and Command and Control functions. GCSS-J provides the IT capabilities required to move and sustain joint forces throughout the full spectrum of military operations. Combatant Command and Joint Task Force Commanders are the primary GCSS-J customers. GCSS-J provides asset visibility from disparate authoritative data sources to provide the warfighter an integrated picture of the battlespace. GCSS-J provides web-based capabilities in a net-centric environment to provide information to authorized users regardless of geographic location. Without GCSS-J, the warfighter will no longer have the ability to make critical, real-time decisions and dynamic access to authoritative, comprehensive Combat Support information for situational awareness will be lost. The warfighter will not have the tools necessary to provide the right personnel, equipment, supplies, and support, to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities across the full spectrum of military operations. The joint logistics warfighter will be forced to return to swivel seat logistics; a return to the old model of accessing critical data from multiple stove-piped legacy system, requiring multiple user identifications and passwords. To view the battlespace, the warfighter will have to retrieve and separately compile information from the various databases – a very time consuming and inefficient task, impacting the fight. Utilizing the joint decision tools and reporting capability of GCSS-J results in the warfighter’s ability to access data from multiple sources within minutes rather than hours. This program supports the DISA Campaign Plan on Infrastructure, Security and Applications; Integration and Production; and Customer Requirements and Enterprise Services Management.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0303141K_5_0400_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
The decrease in FY 2010 of -$2.003 is due to shifting of priorities to meet new Departmental goals. The decrease in FY 2012 of -$0.144 is due to general reduction for Economic Assumptions and a reduction of velocity for GCSS-J Increment 7 development.
Service Agency Name
Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Combat Support
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Planning
  • Military Operations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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