Support to DCGS Enterprise

Abstract

This Program Element funds 1) the Intelligence Integration Office (I2O), formerly the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Multi-service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO), which oversees the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB) development, modernization, integration, test, and community support in support of Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), Combatant Commands and Coalition/Partner Intel Operations and 2) the DCGS Enterprise Interoperability effort and 3) the Imagery Processing effort which consists of the Virtual Imagery Processing Capability (VIP-C) program. 1)The I2O oversees Enterprise Interoperability for Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), Combatant Commands and Coalition/Partner Intel Operations. All Services must pursue a common path based on a set of common enterprise services consistent with the DoD's net-centric vision. The DoD charged the Air Force to lead the development, modernization, integration, test, and community support of the Enterprise services to include implementation of international standards (including NATO standardization agreements) to ensure joint, allied, and coalition interoperability. The DIB is a set of enterprise standards and services that enable interoperability and component reuse and provide a flexible and singularly sustainable path to information sharing across the global ISR enterprise including, Next Generation Interoperability (NGI), which will deliver modernized federation profiles, interfaces, methodologies, and data interchange standards without relying upon legacy DIB federation standards and dependencies through common language, common mechanisms, and quality exposure. The deployment of these services into the DI2E Common Data Fabric (CDF) will provide common applications and a managed service framework for the development, test and integration of machine-aided decision making capabilities. The I2O manages the DCGS Test Laboratory (DTL) at Hanscom AFB. This facility supports software development and test for DI2E evaluation during exercises such as Enterprise Challenge and Storm Force. 2) The DCGS Enterprise Interoperability effort provides support to OUSD(I), AF DCGS and NATO interoperability efforts. This includes the development, testing, and implementation of international standards (to include NATO standardization agreements) to ensure joint, allied, and coalition interoperability. 3) The Imagery Processing effort develops the Virtual Imagery Processing Capability (VIP-C) within the DCGS architecture. The VIP-C provides end-to-end image processing to include raw data ingest, data format standardization to facilitate exploitation, secondary image processing, metadata conditioning, and image quality enhancements. Current efforts are focused on 1) ensuring new sensors being fielded and associated data types can be processed and 2) increasing investment in the Machine Assisted Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Exploitation (MAGE) capability. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver AF DCGS system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0305240F_7_3600_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: In FY 2021, $13.3 million in PE 0305240F, Support to DCGS Enterprise, Project 674826, Common Imagery Ground/Surface Systems, was transferred to PE 0305208L Distributed Common Ground/Surface System for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Common Data Fabric (CDF) effort. In addition, the FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $3.997 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Agreements
• Air Force
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Data Fabrics
• Deployment
• Geospatial Intelligence
• Ground Control Stations
• Image Processing
• Information Exchange
• Language
• Product Development
• Software Development
• Standardization
• Standards
• Unified Combatant Commands

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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