Environmental Assessment Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Operations Facility, Beale Air Force Base, California.

摘要

This Environmental Assessment (EA) evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the construction and operation of a New Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Operations Facility, associated parking lot, and support facilities including sidewalks, emergency generators, and landscaping; and the relocation of the transportable medium earth terminal (TMET) and the satellite communications (SATCOM) facility, on Beale Air Force Base (AFB), California. Existing Distributed Ground Station (DGS) facility' operations capabilities are inhibited due to the size of the facility. Adequate space is required for the expanded DGS mission supporting the Secretary of Defense directive for continued growth of unmanned aircraft systems and associated intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination. In addition to meeting the expanded DGS mission growth, the new building would accommodate the relocation of the DCGS Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination System (PEDS) Operation Center (DPOC) operation, ISR Emergency Center (ISREC), and Combat Logistics System (CLS) training functions all within the same facility. The mission growth pertaining to Beale AFB requires an adequate DGS ground platform (facilities and infrastructure) to enable expanded operation of the Global ISR weapon system.