Distributed Common Ground/Surface Systems

Abstract

This program element is part of the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). The Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Special Operations Forces (DCGS-SOF) is part of a family of systems providing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (PED), and analytical capabilities at the Component/Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOC) level and below through a combination of reach back, forward support, and collaboration. The mission tailored infrastructure interconnects the warfighters, analysts, and sensors to find and fix High Value Targets and provides a network-enabled, interoperable construct allowing continual, unimpeded sharing of intelligence data, information and services with SOF and between the Services, other national intelligence agencies, combatant commands and multi-national partners. It connects the SOF warfighters and support analysts with essential intelligence information and provides situational awareness information to SOF leadership at all echelons. The three components of DCGS-SOF include the following: Enterprise/All Source Information Fusion (ENT/ASIF) provides infrastructure, processing, and intelligence analytical tools to allow for worldwide SOF intelligence information sharing via a globally connected cloud based architecture as well as a forward disconnected capability. SOF Geospatial Intelligence Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (SGIP) provides capabilities in garrison and deployed environments for the PED of manned and unmanned sensors. SOF Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (PED) provides SIGINT exploitation capability in both garrison and deployed environments. These technologies will be pursued via rapid prototyping efforts when appropriate.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0305208BB_7_0400_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: FY 2019: None. FY 2020: None. FY 2021: Net decrease of $0.421 million is due to rebaseline of funding to continue rapid integration and user testing of emerging standards and technology in the Integrated Survey Program (ISP) (-$0.380 million). For the Defense Wide Review (DWR), USSOCOM performed a comprehensive analysis of future capabilities and is streamlining contract support costs as a result of better buying power initiatives which aligns with the Department's priorities as outlined in the National Defense Strategy (-$0.041 million). Schedule: Market research results and the pivot to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Fusion Analysis and Development Effort (FADE) platform modifies technology development objectives and timelines. Modernization efforts with SGIP and SOF SIGINT PED modify technology development objectives and timelines. Technical: Usability testing and requirements refinement led to market research and technology shifts across DCGS-SOF.
• Service Agency Name: United States Special Operations Command

Entities

Organizations

• United States Special Operations Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Department Of Defense
• Emerging Technology
• Geospatial Intelligence
• Information Exchange
• Infrastructure
• Machine Learning
• Military Intelligence
• National Security
• Natural Language Processing
• Signals Intelligence
• Situational Awareness
• Surveillance
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States
• United States Special Operations Command

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
• Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs