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 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 spaceborne, 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 workstation from the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) - Integrated Imagery and Intelligence (I3), Generic Area Limitation Environment (GALE) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Common Geo-positioning Services (CGS), Image Product Library (IPL) or Information Store (iSToRE), Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), Joint Concentrator Architecture (JCA) and Track Management Services (TMS). The DCGS-N system represents the integration of 1) The processing and exploitation of tactical and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and 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 (ISR&T) 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, facilitates interoperability and data sharing among the DCGS FoS. DCGS-N ensures compliance with the DoD DCGS network architecture. The Navy is 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 integration and testing of a Maritime ISR Enterprise capabilities, migration of ISR applications to a SOA environment, and integration to leverage a Common Computing Environment (CCE) and the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE). DCGS-N will also become the focal point for migration of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) fusion and analysis Maritime Fusion & Analysis (MFAS) tool applications for the Navy. Additionally, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) funding supports development and integration efforts to fuse Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (ISR&T) data collected, exploited and disseminated by ISR systems with other intelligence data and automatically provide to shipboard combat systems to support kinetic (bombs, mortars, missiles, bullets)and non-kinetic fires (electronic attack, lasers, cyber-attack)and more effective exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum. ISR systems will play key roles in enabling the national-to-tactical integration necessary for an integrated maritime targeting capability in support of kinetic and non-kinetic fires. Distributed Common Ground System-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 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 TCPED capabilities to improve the use and analysis of sensor and platform data. 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 (Fleet Capability Release 1 (FCR-1)) provides an enhanced Navy ISR enterprise that converges and builds on the DCGS-N Increment 1 and MDA Enterprise Nodes; leverages the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E); is compliant with the Common Computing Environment (CCE) and the Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE); federates ISR and TCPED workflow and production improving throughout the automation; exploits new and evolving unmanned systems sensor data; provides Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) cross-queuing and modular tools. The second release (Fleet Capability Release 2 (FCR-2), 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. In FY19, DCGS-N Increment 1 will continue development, integration and regression testing required to remain aligned with national imagery standards to be incorporated into technology refreshes for End-of-Life upgrades. In FY19, DCGS-N Increment 2 will conduct the Fielding Technical Review and Fielding Decision Review of Fleet Capability Release 1 (FCR-1), which comprises the ashore backbone of the Navy's ISR&T enterprise and will contain enterprise data and analytics, and synchronize the Common Intelligence Picture across the Fleet. This portion of the DCGS-N Increment 2 system will support future test events. DCGS-N Increment 2 will complete integration of Fleet Capability Release 2 (FCR-2) which comprises the afloat nodes of the Navy's ISR&T enterprise. DCGS-N Increment 2 will conduct an In Progress Test Review and Integrated Test of the FCR-2 build including rigorous cyber security testing. DCGS-N Increment 2 will continue developing hardware specifications for Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E), and begin planning for Fleet Capability Release 3 (FCR-3) including developing the Requirements Definition Package (RDP), preparing for the Build Technical Review and Build Decision. DCGS-N Increment 2 will continue Passive Targeting Efforts leveraging Office of Naval Research (ONR) Electromagnetic Battle Management (EMBM) Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) to network and fuse Passive Targeting Data.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0305208N_7_1319_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2019 funding request was reduced by ($0.621) million to reflect the Department of Navy's effort to support the Office of Management and Budget directed reforms for Efficiency and Effectiveness that include a lean, accountable, more efficient government. The FY19 DCGS-N funding request was reduced by $2.3M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. The $103K decrease for DCGS-N Increment 1 from FY18 to FY19 is a result of Efficiencies, Common Geospatial Services (CGS), and associated systems engineering services. Schedule: DCGS-N Increment 2's fielding has been updated to reflect PEO C4I synchronized plan.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Ground Control Stations
• Imagery Intelligence
• Information Systems
• Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Signals Intelligence
• Situational Awareness
• Surveillance
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• 5G
• 5G - DoD 5G Program
• 5G - Internet of Things
• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Cyber
• Directed Energy
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics