DCGS-MC

Distributed Common Ground System-Marine Corps (DCGS-MC) is a critical Commandant of the Marine Corps Force Design program focused on Reconnaissance/Counter-Reconnaissance. It provides robust multi-intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities to include sensor fusion and correlation. The program aims to deliver tactically focused, operational, and strategic intelligence across all echelons of the Marine Corps at the tactical edge throughout all phases of operations to provide relevant, precise battlespace awareness and threat characterization for the Joint Task Force, Naval Force, Marine Air-Ground Task Force, and subordinate Marine units in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and Distributed Maritime Operations. The modernization efforts are focused on advanced all-domain information environment tools and technologies that enable superior awareness of the battlespace.

DCGS-MC SIGINT fuses and analyzes SIGINT data from tactical, theater, and national collectors and databases for dissemination to tactical commanders. It automatically collects, stores, retrieves, and plays back digital signals and provides SIGINT analysis applications to deployable FMF units that direct and manage the technical and operational functions of Radio Battalion (RadBn) SIGINT and electronic warfare (EW) assets. DCGS-MC GEOINT informs and provides commanders at all echelons the ability to anticipate and react quickly to evolving situations and support fires to accurately identify, locate, and prosecute targets within the area of operations. DCGS-MC All Source facilitates global collaboration with Marine and joint analytical systems, enabling Marines to conduct multi-discipline intelligence fusion, analysis, production, and dissemination of intelligence in support of the Find, Fix, Track, Target and Assess process by automating multiple intelligence functions and processes. Family of Integrated Targeting and Exploitation (FITE) is an advanced multi-domain information standardization and exchange environment that provides access to the MCISRE to the Naval Operations Architecture in order to provide information advantage and the rapid weaponization of data.

The PAI/OSINT capability will allow users to gather, enrich, analyze PAI in order to generate, preserve, deny, and project information. With incremental progression, it aims to enable data sharing across the entire operational environment in a private cloud environment. Commanders and staff require a clear understanding of the Operational Environment to communicate, access, visualize, describe, and direct operations. Marines must be able to efficiently access, gather, exploit PAI by all available means as adversaries often reveal vulnerabilities or intentions that the FMF can only exploit in the cognitive or information dimensions.