Developing Progress and Trends of U. S. Distributed Common Ground Station.

As a main intelligence collection processing and dissemination system of U. S. military forces, the Distributed Common Ground Station ( DCGS) has made a great progress in recent years for benefiting from the global information grid (GIG), cloud technology and big data technology, etc. This paper briefly introduces the developing progress of U. S. DCGS, with emphasis on the status and features of Air Force DCGS-AF and Army DCGS-A, including the architecture and ability of DCGS-AF Block 10.2 and DCGS -A 3.0 Griffin software, etc. According to operational applications of DCGS in Iraq and Afghanistan, it analyzes the future trends of DCGS in hope of providing reference for those concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]