Intel Command and Control (C2) Sys

Abstract

INTELLIGENCE COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) includes Military Intelligence Program (MIP) funds for Marine Corps Intelligence capabilities necessary to support the employment of intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance (ISR), and target acquisition resources integral to delivering decision advantage at the speed of operational relevance outlined in the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Marine Corps intelligence capabilities are divided into three functional areas organized along intelligence processes: Sensing (Persistent ISR), Analysis (Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Marine Corps (DCGS-MC)), and Dissemination (Intelligence Dissemination and Utilization (IDU)). This project funds the Sensing and Dissemination portfolios while the Analysis portfolio is budgeted under the DCGS-MC PE. PERSISTENT INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE (PISR) GROUND SYSTEMS: PISR is a comprehensive strategy that synchronizes organic and external ISR assets in support of MAGTF operations. This capability involves sensing the operational environment through a variety of systems, from satellites overhead to reconnaissance Marines on the ground. PISR incorporates terrestrial sensing capability from the following ground collection systems. TERRESTRIAL COLLECTION provides a tactical ground sensor Family of Systems (FoS) that are organic to the MAGTF and facilitate near-real time PISR sensing to MAGTF decision-makers and users. Sensors are networked to the maximum extent possible to enable the sharing of standard data and information to support all six Marine Corps warfighting functions (C2,Intelligence, Operations, Protection, Fires, and Maneuver) with both targeting and battlespace awareness. An array of sensor delivery methods, and a variety of sensor characteristics enable the MAGTF to sense air (low altitude), land (surface, underground), sea (surface and subsurface), environmental effects (weather), and man-made objects (e.g. inside buildings) to determine threat location, disposition, movement and direction. The Terrestrial Collection portfolio includes, but not limited to, Ground Based Operational Surveillance System (GBOSS), MAGTF Secondary Imagery Dissemination System (MSIDS), and Tactical Remote Sensor System (TRSS). GBOSS is an expeditionary, ground-based, self-contained, multi-spectral sensor-oriented, persistent surveillance system used to observe, collect, detect, identify, classify, track, and report on contacts, objects of interest, and assessed threats twenty-four hours a day utilizing a fused video and sensor data display. MSIDS provides organic tactical digital imagery collection, transmission and receiving capability to the MAGTF Commander. TRSS provides all-weather direction, location determination, targeting, and tactical indications and warning of enemy activity in the MAGTF Commander's Area of Interest. COUNTER INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (CI/HUMINT) Equipment Program (CIHEP) provides each Marine CI/HUMINT Company within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) with an integrated, standardized, and interoperable suite of information and communication systems. The CIHEP program provides specialized equipment that is lightweight, modular, and tailorable, in deployable packages to conduct full spectrum, tactical CI and HUMINT activities, to include Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) operations. TSCM operations use techniques to detect, neutralize, and exploit hostile technical surveillance technologies and hazards that permit the unauthorized access to or removal of information. CI/HUMINT elements are generally task-organized in support of a MAGTF or other supported commanders, providing them the capability to rapidly collect, process, and disseminate counterintelligence and human intelligence information in support of military planning and operations. CIHEP is comprised of ten modules of commercial and government off the-shelf equipment. Different components are selected for refresh each year in order to maintain current capabilities and ensure interoperability and standardization with related systems. This results in an equipment suite that enhances the operating force's CI/HUMINT capabilities, while maintaining interoperability within the USMC and joint CI/HUMINT communities. The modularity of the CIHEP program allows Marines to perform a variety of missions in support of commanders, while carrying only those items necessary to accomplish the mission. CIHEP provides state- of-the-art mission critical information protection capabilities, as well as the ability to detect, identify, and locate specific technical threats. TACTICAL SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE (SIGINT) Collection System (TSCS) provides rapidly deployable capability that is the only Tactical Signals collection capability in the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) in both man packable and vehicular configurations, and provides collections capabilities needed to develop intelligence. The TSCS Family of Systems (FoS) incorporates the Radio Reconnaissance Equipment Program (RREP) and Team Portable Collection Systems - Multi-Platform Capable (TPCS-MPC) programs into a single program, providing a modular and scalable suite of equipment that exploits information from more technically advanced target sets. The TSCS FoS has an incremental acquisition strategy, providing Technical Refresh for legacy TPCS-MPC and RREP systems as the systems become obsolete and/or require technology insertions to maintain pace with our adversaries. The prioritization of capabilities included in each increment is based on obsolescence and required capability upgrades against advanced target sets. Fluctuations within the funding profile is due to different components being refreshed each year. COMMUNICATION EMITTER SENSING and ATTACKING SYSTEM (CESAS) is the sole USMC high power, man-packable, and ground mobile Electronic Attack (EA) asset. CESAS supports the MAGTF Commander in the execution of his Electronic Warfare (EW) operations and Information Operations, by detecting, denying, and disrupting hostile communication emitters across a broad range of communication frequencies. CESAS covers the High Frequency (HF), Very High Frequency (VHF), and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) frequency ranges against enemy emitters using modern modulation schemes. CESAS allows flexible employment to conduct EA while on the move or in a stationary position, thus optimizing the Commander's ability to employ this asset for the greatest success of the mission. CESAS uses an incremental acquisition strategy, providing Technical Refresh for legacy systems as the systems become obsolete and/or require technology insertions to maintain pace with our adversaries. PROCESSING, EXPLOITATION, ANALYSIS AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: Processing, exploitation, analysis and production actions of the Intelligence process enables Marines to understand the all-source information/data revealed by PISR. The Distributed Common Ground System - Marine Corps (DCGS-MC) Enterprise (BLI 4767) will serve as the Marine Corps ISR Enterprise (MCISRE) backbone, migrating select capabilities into a single, integrated, net-centric baseline via clearly defined capability drops. The Intelligence Analysis System (IAS) FoS (All-Source) and the Technical Control Analysis Center (TCAC) FoS (Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)) transition to Project 2268 DCGS-MC beginning FY20. INTELLIGENCE DISSEMINATION AND UTILIZATION (IDU) SYSTEMS: The IDU capability set performs the dissemination and integration functions of the Intelligence process. Dissemination connects the Intelligence product to the Commander who "operationalizes" these products through informed decisions. The ITELLIGENCE BROADCAST RECEIVER(IBR) acquisition program is a family of terminals that conform to the Department of Defense (DoD) Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS) objectives of interoperability and commonality to receive and process near-real time multi-intelligence data. The IBR family of terminals provide MAGTF Commanders with the only direct access to IBS data via UHF Satellite Communications (SATCOM) broadcast channels. The IBR program is an evolving, multi-Service architecture designed to keep pace with Commanders' targeting and information requirements and conforms to the DoD IBS objectives of interoperability and commonality, which is currently accomplished using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Embedded National Tactical Receiver (ENTR). The ENTR Version 4 (V4) will supplement and replace the USB ENTR which is no longer in production. The ENTR V4 provides a 50% weight reduction and doubles the life expectancy of the battery compared to the USB ENTR. Additionally, the IBR program is researching technology to meet the existing transceiver requirement identified in the Joint Tactical Terminal Joint Operational Requirements Document (JORD). The IBR family of terminals receive Blue Force Tracker data, which is a key element in developing and maintaining situational awareness as it relates to the common threat/common operating picture. The IBR provides NRT strategic, theater, and tactical sensor-to-shooter connectivity as well as NRT Theater Missile Defense indications and warnings. Additionally, the IBR provides connectivity to IBS Common Interactive Broadcast and IBS Alternative Path. JOINT WORLDWIDE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (JWICS) is the Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) portion of the Defense Information System Network. It incorporates advanced networking technologies that permit point-to-point or multi-point information exchange involving voice, text, graphics, data and video teleconferencing within the DoD Intelligence Community. JWICS provides Marine Forces with special intelligence that significantly enhances the detail and quality of intelligence support that intelligence organizations provide to operating forces. SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS(SCI COMMS) is a Super-High Frequency multi-band satellite communications Family of Systems (FoS), that provides a tactical capability at the Top Secret (TS)/SCI and Secret Collateral levels to USMC intelligence units. The SCI COMMS FoS is the only deployable communications system that is dedicated for TS/SCI data and voice communications that can receive, transmit and disseminate bulk data and imagery products to and from national tactical intelligence sources. The FoS consists of palletized, team level, and man-packable systems - TROJAN SPIRIT, High Bandwidth Special Intelligence-Palletized Terminal (HBSI-PT), and Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Kit (SCIK) - which provide USMC tactical commanders with high-capacity, near-real-time access to intelligence from national agencies, joint, coalition, service activities, intelligence producers, and other tactical units via connectivity to Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, National Security Agency (NSA) Network, coalition networks, and Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. The overall decrease of $16.372M is principally due to the realignment of TCAC and IAS resources to RDTE PRJ 2268, DCGS-MC, concentrating investments in an integrated architecture thereby improving DCGS Enterprise alignment and more effectively leveraging the rapid integration of new technology.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 2272_0206625M_7_1319_PB_2020

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