Service Support to STRATCOM - Global Strike

Mission — Global Data Integration (GDI) source

The mission of USSTRATCOM is to deter strategic attack through a safe, secure, effective, and credible, global combat capability and, when directed, is ready to prevail in conflict. The command enables Joint Force operations and is the combatant command responsible for Strategic Deterrence, Nuclear Operations, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Enterprise Operations, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, Global Strike, Analysis and Targeting, and Missile Threat Assessment. USSTRATCOM integrates and coordinates the necessary command and control capability to provide support with the most accurate and timely information for the President, the Secretary of Defense, other national leadership and combatant commanders. The Nation's strategic C2 sensors, and mission planning programs cannot rapidly exchange information across multiple missions creating ambiguity that delays time critical national C2 decision making processes. GDI developed and established a unified schema that integrates disparate Missile Warning/Missile Defense (MW/MD), Technical Intelligence (TI) and other data into a single, exposed data set, providing redundant and unambiguous Situational Awareness data to national leadership. GDI also enables existing radars and sensors to provide data in net-centric formats consumable by other authorized systems and mission areas, thus reducing the need to acquire more systems. Activities also include studies and analysis to support current program planning, execution, and future program planning. GDI directly supports USSTRATCOM and other Combatant Command and MAJCOM mission sets. GDI meshes together selected systems and sensors (from tactical to strategic), including the Nation's most modern and capable assets, taking advantage of their larger numbers, improved algorithms, mobility, and forward deployment to provide earlier cross-cueing and expanded decision space when every second counts. Repurposing these traditionally stove-piped systems and sensors, GDI enables the warfighter in several ways. GDI enables creation of a User Defined Operating Picture (UDOP) to provide a single, unambiguous missile event picture allowing real-time collaboration for nuclear C2 and improved senior leader situational awareness (SA) for effective decision-making. GDI also improves Space Situational Awareness (SSA) by tapping additional sensor capability and provides this data for the larger space order of battle capabilities. GDI dramatically improves the ingestion of non-traditional, but readily available, non-US government and commercial data to the United States Space Force (USSF) satellite catalog. GDI addresses NORTHCOM/STRATCOM's signed Joint Emergent Operational Need (JEON) ST-0010 request for uninterrupted traditional and non-traditional sensor data integration and the Global Threat Characterization Assessment (GTCA) Operational Planning Team report. Finally, GDI provides Data Analysis functions to optimize and operate situational awareness in the field, including units operating in Denied-Disconnected, Intermittent, Limited (D-DIL) and emissions controlled (EMCON) conditions. Leveraging the appropriate acquisition authorities and contract mechanisms to deliver capability sooner, USSTRATCOM will strategically execute experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts to develop new or repurpose capabilities. GDI may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability but the civilian pay is expended from program element 0101890F. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

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