TSM Notes - Update on Joint STARS CGS and DCGS-A

摘要

Reflecting back on 2003, it is still difficult to imagine all the "moving parts and pieces" that occurred with the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Common Ground Station (CGS) and the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). For example, last year we saw the largest Joint STARS deployment to date: with 9 Joint STARS aircraft and 36 supporting CGS ground units during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF), the deployed CGS crews proved to be "winners" during the ground offensive. Meanwhile, we worked the concepts and requirements for the future intelligence ground processing system, DCGS-A, ultimately obtaining the Army Requirements Oversight Council approval for the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) on 2 December 2003. Both of these events will have a profound impact on the way we "fight" intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in the future.