Global Combat Support System
Abstract
The Global Combat Support System (GCSS) in conjunction with other Global Information Grid elements including Global Command and Control System-Joint, Defense Information Systems Network, Computing Services, and Combatant Commands/Services/Agencies information architectures, provides the IT capabilities required to move and sustain joint forces throughout the full spectrum of military operations. GCSS significantly increases access to information stored in disparate databases via a single sign on, web portal application, using a Secret Internet Protocol Router Network Public Key Infrastructure certificate. The GCSS infrastructure provides secure web-access, discrete user account administration, data mediation, and enterprise management features that facilitate delivery of capabilities to meet the vision of a net-centric architecture, as well as the integration of information across combat support functional areas. GCSS uses web-based technology to meet the tenets of Joint Publication 4-0, Joint Logistics; GCSS provides the IT capability to plan, execute, and control joint logistics operations. GCSS provides visibility of critical commodities to the joint logistician on-hand, in-transit and in-storage to sustain the force. Without GCSS, the warfigher will no longer have the ability to make critical, real-time decisions and dynamic access to authoritative, comprehensive Combat Support information for situational awareness will be lost. The warfighter will not have the tools necessary to provide the right personnel, equipment, supplies, and support, to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities across the full spectrum of military operations. The joint logistics warfighter will be forced to return to swivel seat logistics; a return to the old model of accessing critical data from multiple stove-piped legacy system, requiring multiple user IDs and passwords. To view the battlespace, the warfighter will have to retrieve and separately compile information from the various databases – a very time consuming and inefficient task. Utilizing the joint decision tools and reporting capability of GCSS results in the warfighter’s ability to access data from multiple sources within minutes rather than hours.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- CS01_0303141K_5_0400_PB_2011
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