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 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 Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) 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, DI2E, 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 current DIB standards and DI2E policy, facilitating interoperability and data sharing among the DCGS FoS. DCGS-N ensures 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 to provide intelligence products to support deployed ship and shore operations. The Navy will also migrate 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 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 and integrate Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) capabilities to improve the use and analysis of sensor and platform data. Distributed Common Ground System- Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 2 will be 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 multiple releases. The first release provides an enhanced Navy Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) enterprise that converges and builds on the DCGS-N Increment 1 and Maritime Domain Awareness Enterprise Nodes; leverages the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E); is compliant with the Common Computing Environment (CCE); federates ISR and TCPED workflow and production improving throughput through automation; exploits new and evolving unmanned systems sensor data; provides Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) cross-queuing and modular tools. The second release enhances afloat ISR capabilities by providing a set of software centric tools providing Multi-INT fusion and analysis, behavior prediction and intelligent knowledge management designed to operate in disconnected or denied communications environment. Follow-on releases will be developed based on Fleet requirements. 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 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 (MOC) and national ISR systems, making tactical users a part of the larger ISR enterprise. In FY15, DCGS-N Increment 1 will verify and correct discrepancies discovered during the Block 2 Follow-On Operational Test and Evaluation (FOT&E). In FY15, DCGS-N Increment 2 will contribute to the development of the Program Executive Officer, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) prototype system. Increment 2 will conduct engineering reviews in accordance with agile development methodologies. In FY15, ICOP will complete all acquisition and engineering of development integration activities pertaining to formal testing efforts in preparation for fielding of Program of Record (PoR) systems.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0305208N_7_1319_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: 1) DCGS-N Increment 1's Block 2 Operational Test (OT) Afloat, Follow-On Test and Evaluation (FOTE) Shipboard, and Block 2 Full Deployment Decision (FDD) were moved 2 QTRs to align with updated schedule for the OT platform (ship). Increment 1 Block 2 Development Test/ Operational Assessment (DT/OA) was moved 2 QTRs to align with Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) lab schedule availability. Current Fleet schedule indicates the OT platform will complete its yard period in Q1FY15; the OT is scheduled for Q2FY15-Q3FY15, with Full Deployment Decision (FDD) occurring by Q4FY15. 2) Based on the DCGS-N Increment 2 FY13 selection of a Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) and a ruling of sufficiency from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) in 2013, DCGS-N Increment 2's Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) was rescheduled from 4QFY13 to 1QFY16, Information System (IS) Capability Development Document (CDD) was rescheduled from 3QFY13 to 1QFY15,and its Build Decision (BD) from 1QFY14 to 2QFY16. Fielding Decisions have been updated to reflect latest plan based upon the AoA selection. Realigned Test and Evaluation (T&E) schedule to reflect latest notional schedule. 3) Building on ICOP Prototyping efforts, the ICOP Program of Record (POR) accelerated its Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) to 4QFY13 and ICOP Milestone C/ Full Rate Production(FRP) planned for 3QFY15. Development Test/ Operational Test event timeline scheduled for 4QFY14-1QFY15.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Communications Intelligence
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Department Of Defense
• Ground Control Stations
• Imagery Intelligence
• Information Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Signals Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Space