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 system efforts include investigation of emerging technologies through study, development, and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. 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 1 is the Navy's current in service DCGS ISR&T program of record. The system is actively used by Navy force level ships and shore sites in support of the mission. DCGS-N Increment 1 is currently performing technical refreshes to Windows 10 (WIN 10) per the Department of Defense's initiatives while enabling the long-term transition to DCGS-N Increment 2. 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. 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 perform quick and affordable integration of emergent transformational COTS and GOTS technologies in support of information warfare and overall efforts required to pace the threat. DCGS-N Increment 2 will deliver all source fusion and analytical capabilities; provide 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 Enterprise Node; 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; 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. DCGS-N Increment 2 will insert new technology enhancements via incremental software & hardware upgrades and deliver as annual build release. Follow-on releases will be developed based on Fleet requirements.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0305208N_7_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding for projects 2174 and 2227 have been realigned out of PE 0305208N into PE 0304785N as part of Program Element Consolidation starting in FY20. Summaries located in PE 0304785N.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Communications Intelligence
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Control Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Intelligence
• Ground Control Stations
• Imagery Intelligence
• Information Systems
• Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Signals Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

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

Technology Areas

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