Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N)
Abstract
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). DCGS-N system 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 DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB), Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (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. DCGS-N Increment 1 is the Navy's current fielded DCGS ISR&T program of record. The system is actively used by Navy force level ships and shore sites in support of the mission. Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) provides Indications and Warnings (I&W), battlespace awareness/visualization, pattern of life analysis, Full-Motion Video (FMV) and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) capabilities in support of Unit-Level Navy surface (CG, DDG, and LPD classes) 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 (NIPR, SIPR and 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 FY 2022, ICOP will finalize and baseline the system design for the SCI ICOP Mission Module. In addition, ICOP engineering team will commence system engineering efforts to start containerization of the ICOP software stack which will allow an additional variant to be employed on platforms that have severe space constraints such as LCS and DDG 1000 platforms. ICOP will roll out horizon one capabilities of the CBM effort which include user dashboard, near-real time diagnostics reporting and prognostic services. In addition, ICOP will continue integration testing with several NAVAIR platforms and capabilities as part of the Digital Warfare Office (DWO) sponsored Information Warfare FoS initiative.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 2174_0304785N_5_1319_PB_2022
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