(U)DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS

Abstract

The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) is a cooperative effort between the services, agencies, and the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide systems capable of receiving, processing, exploiting, and disseminating data from airborne and national reconnaissance platforms. DCGS - Navy (DCGS-N) is the Navy instance of the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence (USD (I)) DCGS Family of Systems (FoS). The 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. The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) accesses and ingests data from space borne, airborne, subsurface, and surface ISR collection assets, intelligence databases and intelligence producers. The DCGS Integrated Backbone (DIB) shares data collected across the joint enterprise. Further integration with Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) will enhance access and sharing of ISR information across Joint forces using 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 to maintain a tactical advantage over adversaries. DCGS-N fulfills a critical mission set Afloat and Ashore. DCGS-N processes and exploits tactical and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), facilitates precision target geopositioning, mensuration, and imagery capabilities, integrates national IMINT requirements and processing capabilities from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and shares Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (ISR&T) and Command and Control information via the DIB, DI2E, and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) standards with a wide range of customers. The DCGS-N program conducts research and assessments of tactically relevant, emerging technologies program insertion to ensure superiority in the intelligence domain. 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 complies with the DoD DCGS network architecture. The DCGS-N Analytics Node (DAN) is a cloud based instantiation of the DEN, and is the foundation for DCGS-N to transform DCGS-N into a modernized data environment. Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 1 is the Navy's current fielded DCGS Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (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 2 will integrate emergent, transformational Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) technologies in order to streamline Sailor's analytical efforts and improve targeting solutions for the operator, optimizing and compressing the kill chain. 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 optimize the use and analysis of sensor and platform data. DCGS-N Increment 2 leverages enterprise solutions to share information across commands, services, and agencies to promote shared situational awareness. DCGS-N Increment 2 consists of multiple releases that build upon capability over time and allow for ongoing fleet feedback as the software matures. Each Fleet Capability Releases (FCR)), enhances afloat ISR capabilities by providing a set of software centric tools to include 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 upgrades. Continued development of follow-on releases/Capability Drops (CD's) will be based upon on prioritized Fleet requirements. Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) provides Indications and Warnings (I&W), battlespace awareness/visualization and ISR Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) capabilities in support of Navy surface and expeditionary operations. The ICOP system includes a three-eyed ruggedized workstation that serves as a powerful afloat edge computing device that is capable of operating on all three security domains (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR), Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS)) and an antenna/receiver set (called Communications Module 3 - CM3) that is used to ingest, process and exploit airborne sensor data. In addition to supporting multi-intelligence capabilities, ICOP/CM3 provides an end-to-end ISR PED architecture that includes processing organic shipboard camera systems to support Navy-wide Operational Task (OPTASK) Visual Information (Strategic Communications - "First to the Truth," pattern of life analysis and use of force/rules of engagement decisions). In addition, the ICOP system supports the ability to process and correlate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and external Communications Intelligence (COMINT Externals). It integrates mature COTS and GOTS applications with robust storage, processing and computing capability. ICOP adheres to the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence (USD (I)) interoperability mandates and federates with other Joint DCGS users via the DCGS Integrated Backbone (DIB). ICOP data is pushed to the shore-based DCGS Enterprise Node (DEN) for discovery, retrieve, and data enrichment. ICOP enables Unit-level ships and expeditionary customers to become part of the larger Intelligence Community (IC) enterprise.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0305208N_7_1319_PB_2021
• 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
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Command And Control
• Communications Intelligence
• Computer Networks
• Computing Devices
• Computing System Architectures
• Cost Analysis
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Intelligence
• Ground Control Stations
• Imagery Intelligence
• Knowledge Management
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Network Architecture
• Network Protocols
• Standards
• Surveillance
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

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