Distributed Common Ground Sys

Abstract

The Distributed Common Ground System - Navy (DCGS-N) is the Navy's portion of the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence (USD (I)) DCGS-N Family of Systems (FoS). The Department of Defense (DoD) has defined a DCGS architecture that will be verifiably compatible and interoperable across all of the Services' Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems and operations. DCGS accesses and ingests data from space borne, airborne, subsurface, and surface ISR collection assets, intelligence databases and intelligence producers. This collected data is shared across a Joint enterprise using the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB) and in time, the Joint Intelligence Enterprise (JIE) to enhance access and sharing of ISR information across Joint forces through the use of common enterprise standards and services. DCGS FoS supports Joint Task Force (JTF)-level and below combat operations with critical intelligence for battle management and information dominance across the full spectrum of operations, including peace, conflict, war, and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). DCGS is a cooperative effort between the services, agencies, and DoD to provide systems capable of receiving, processing, exploiting, and disseminating data from airborne and national reconnaissance platforms. DCGS-N core components include the Analyst Work Station from the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) - Integrated Imagery and Intelligence (I3), Generic Area Limitation Environment (GALE) Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Common Geo-positioning Services (CGS), Image Product Library (IPL), Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), Joint Concentrator Architecture (JCA) and Track Management Services. The DCGS-N system represents the integration of 1) The processing and exploitation of tactical and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT); 2) Precision target geopositioning, mensuration, and imagery dissemination capabilities; 3) Selected national IMINT requirements and processing capabilities from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); and 4) Sharing of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting and Command and Control information via DIB, JIE, and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) standards with a wide range of customers (e.g., Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M)), Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), and many others. The DCGS-N Enterprise Node (DEN), which incorporates DIB and JIE standards, facilitates interoperability and data sharing among the DCGS FoS. DCGS-N will stay abreast of evolving requirements and ensure compliance with the DoD DCGS network architecture. The Navy is focusing on establishing an ISR Enterprise way ahead that will emphasize a reach back strategy with a focus on providing intelligence products to support deployed ship and shore operations. The Navy will also initiate migration to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that requires the development, integration, and testing of a Maritime ISR Enterprise capability, development and migration of ISR SOA applications, and development and integration to leverage the Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) strategy for a Common Computing Environment (CCE). Additionally, DCGS-N will become the focal point for migration of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) fusion and analysis (MFAS) tool applications for the Navy. DCGS-N Increment 2 addresses a critical shortfall in Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) capability and capacity to support operational, tactical planning, and execution across the full range of joint military operations. Existing TCPED shortfalls will be exacerbated by planned Navy, Joint, and Allied fielding of new Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms. Currently fielded systems provide localized processing capabilities that will be overwhelmed in future years without a significant change in the way the Navy processes, exploits and disseminates intelligence data. DCGS-N Increment 2 will deliver all source fusion and analytical capabilities; provide Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) capabilities; integrate Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) capabilities to improve the use and analysis of sensor and platform data; based on an enterprise solution to share this information across commands, services, and agencies to promote shared situational awareness. DCGS-N Increment 2 consists of at least two releases. The first release provides an enhanced Navy ISR enterprise that converges and builds on the DCGS-N Increment 1 and Maritime Domain Awareness Enterprise Nodes; leverages the Joint Intelligence Enterprise (JIE) framework; federates ISR and TCPED workflow and production improving throughput through automation; exploits new and evolving sensors; provides Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) cross-queuing and provides modular tools accessible via a web browser. The second release enhances afloat ISR capabilities by providing a set of software centric tools hosted on the Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) providing Multi-INT fusion and analysis, behavior prediction and intelligent knowledge management designed to operate in disconnected or denied comms environment. Unit Level Rapid Technology Transition (RTT) Prototype is the initial implementation of the Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP), which is planned for program initiation in Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The RTT Prototype responds to multiple fleet and expeditionary requirements for a subset of DCGS-N intelligence capabilities to meet Navy Cruiser-Destroyer ships, river/coastal patrol, expeditionary, and similar platforms and addresses current Commander, Third Fleet (C3F) and Commander, Fifth Fleet (C5F) Urgent Operational Needs (UON). The RTT Prototype provides a solution based on mature Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) products served in scalable, modular hardware framework that ranges from a small footprint server with workstations to a stand-alone portable workstation. The RTT Prototype extends the ISR enterprise and DCGS Family of Systems (FoS) to disadvantaged users, and it makes Navy organic sensor information available to the Joint Intelligence Community. Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) is a suite of multi-source intelligence and analytical capabilities which includes an integrated Three-Dimensional (3-D) operational picture displaying intelligence and other data sources to provide a richer and more complete picture of the battle space on Unit Level platforms. The system supports a full motion video capability that receives, processes, exploits, and disseminates organic and non-organic data as well as the ability to process and correlate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and external Communications Intelligence (COMINT Externals). It integrates a menu of mature Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) applications with shared storage and communication paths to reach back to the DCGS-N Enterprise Node (DEN), and to provide data sharing to the Maritime Operations Centers (MOCS) and national ISR systems, making tactical users a part of the larger ISR enterprise. In FY14, DCGS-N Increment 1 will develop a final patch to the Block 2 baseline based on discrepancy reports noted during FY13 integration efforts and FY14 test events. Additionally, Increment 1 will complete development of appropriate schoolhouse curricula in support of DCGS-N training plans. In FY14, DCGS-N Increment 2 will complete a build decision, Milestone B. The results of that decision will result in the award of a development and integration contract. FY 2014 activities will focus on design, development and initial testing for DCGS-N Increment 2 Release 1 capabilities. Following contract award there will be a Critical Design Review (CDR) for Release 1. DCGS-N Increment 2 will employ an agile development methodology including frequent interactions between the developer and the user community to ensure that delivered capabilities meet evolving user needs. Concurrent with development of Release 1 the Program Office will be defining the requirements for Release 2. The FY14, Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) will build on the Unit Level Rapid Technology Transition (RTT) Prototype and manage capabilities gathered from DCGS-N Increment 1 Unit Level requirements, Commander, Third Fleet (C3F) and Commander, Fifth Fleet (C5F) Urgent Operational Needs (UON), 2010 Combatant and Command (COCOM) Integrated Priorities Lists (IPL) and from the ICOP Requirements Working Group (IRWG). ICOP will also build on lessons learned from the RTT prototype capability currently deployed on USS VICKSBURG (CG 69) with initial operational capability (IOC) anticipated in FY15. ICOP will develop the associated training documents and the recommended acquisition documents including the Acquisition Strategy, Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD), and Acquisition Program Baseline (APB).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0305208N_7_1319_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: 1) DCGS-N Increment 1 Blk 2 Engineering Development Models (EDMs), being developed in FY12, encountered a change in test afloat platform which resulted in Blk 2 Development Test /Operational Assessment (DT/OA) to shift to 1QFY14, which will now be a landbased Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) test. Operational Test (OT) rescheduled to 3QFY14. Subsequently, Blk 2 Full Deployment Decision (FDD) shifted from 1QFY14 to 2QFY15. 2) The DCGS-N Increment 2 Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) Senior Advisory Group (SAG) provided additional guidance at their March 2012 meeting. This guidance revision ensures that the AoA consider all potential alternatives. The result of this guidance was the addition of a fourth alternative and an extension of the AoA study period. Subsequent acquisition activities including Capability Development Document (CDD), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) are delayed 1 QTR pending approval of the AoA results.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

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Communities of Interest

• C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Communications Intelligence
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Department Of Defense
• Imagery Intelligence
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Naval Warfare
• Product Development
• Signals Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional
• Uss Vicksburg

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• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
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