January 2008
Distributed Common Ground System (Defender)

April 2007
Raytheon Demonstrates New DCGS Web-Portal Capabilities to Improve Intelligence Sharing Across Military Services (News Release)

August 2006
Information Miscues Lead To Bad Targeting Decisions (National Defense)

July 2006
Intelligence Community Gets a Backbone (SIGNAL)

June 2006
Technology Takes Flight (SIGNAL) 

The U.S. Air Force's ISR global network weapon system, the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), will provide the network centric operations backbone for the U.S. armed forces as each service develops its own system. The DCGS 10.2 program will modernize its distributed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, creating a worldwide, network-centric enterprise for real-time information sharing. This cornerstone system is leading the way toward seamless interoperability among all military services with the open architecture, Web-based DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB will facilitate the distribution of the right information at the right time to maximize operational effectiveness.

DCGS will provide continuous on-demand intelligence brokering to achieve full spectrum dominance so that American and coalition forces can change the course of events in hours, minutes or even seconds. The environment provides physical and electronic distribution of ISR data, processes, and systems.

Current ISR systems feed data into platform centric "stovepiped" tasking, processing, exploitation and dissemination systems operating independently of each other. Because of this partitioning, commonality and interoperability is restricted between the services and limits their ability to operate in a Joint and Coalition environment. DCGS Block 10.2 overcomes these obstacles. With the introduction of DCGS 10.2 capabilities, current intelligence data is posted to the network for immediate use by analysts and warfighters, and is integrated with other assets to produce situational knowledge of the battlespace.  The upgrade integrates multiple intelligence systems into a single, worldwide network-centric-enterprise, enabling interoperability and improved collection and delivery of ISR data. DCGS web-based technologies will transform ISR into an integrated element of DoD Command and Control systems.

The Raytheon-led team is working shoulder-to-shoulder with the U.S. Air Force to transform the current Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination- (TPED) based DCGS system into the Task, Post, Process and Use (TPPU) model.