Global Command and Control System

Mission — Global Command and Control System Software and Digital Technology Pilot Programs source

The Global Command and Control System-Joint (GCCS-J) is the Joint Command and Control (C2) system of record and an essential component for warfighting situational awareness. It provides an integrated near real-time picture of the battlespace to support joint and multinational operations on U.S. and coalition networks. GCCS-J displays air, maritime, ground, space, and cyber tracks for decision making. It also provides applications for missile warning, intelligence, targeting, imagery, and exploitation. Key decision makers at the strategic national, strategic theater, and operational levels rely on GCSS-J. GCCS-J supports Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), which is the modernized approach to military decision making by promoting information sharing between Services. Through integrated and synchronized capability development, CJADC2 achieves agile and resilient C2 across the Services. CJADC2 capabilities provide the ability to connect distributed sensors, intelligence, information, data, and effects from all Services to decision makers at the speed of the mission. GCCS-J: • Provides a Common Operational Picture (COP) with ground, air, maritime, cyber, and space tracks of U.S., coalition, and enemy forces. • Has many tactical decision aids and other applications for COP management and situational awareness. • Is the system of record for Theater Missile Warning, which provides alerting and display for real time missile events. • Displays launch points, missile locations, threat fans, and projected impact points. • Provides intelligence support to C2 operators with national and tactical intelligence data from DIA's Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), still and motion imagery, and other sources of intelligence. 1000+ GCCS-J instances can be found around the world (air, land and sea), on 30+ US and Coalition networks, and in 13 active Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases with an additional two pending. The following Joint Staff instructions apply: CJCSI 3265.01A (Governance), CJCSI 6731.01C (Security), and CJCSI 3151.31D (Reporting). In FY 2026, DISA is aggressively funding the modernization of GCCS-J in accordance with Joint Staff priorities. GCCS-J has not had a dedicated modernization fund since 2020. As part of modernization, DISA is taking GCCS-J to the cloud, making it Zero Trust and IPv6 compliant, and creating web-based access on SIPRNet. DISA is also addressing its underlying data model to decrease latency and simplify future modernization. The goal is to provide a centralized hybrid cloud system that generates, displays, and distributes common tactical picture (CTP), common operational picture (COP) and common intelligence picture (CIP) data in near-real-time using the CJADC2 data fabric to users around the world, including those operating under Denied - Disconnected, Intermittently Connected Limited (D-DIL) conditions on mission partner networks.

Mission — Global Command source

The Global Command and Control System-Joint (GCCS-J) is the Joint Command and Control (C2) system of record and an essential component for warfighting situational awareness. It provides an integrated near real-time picture of the battlespace to support joint and multinational operations on U.S. and coalition networks. GCCS-J displays air, maritime, ground, space, and cyber tracks for decision making. It also provides applications for missile warning, intelligence, targeting, and imagery exploitation. Key decision makers at the strategic national, strategic theater, and operational levels rely on GCCS-J. Additionally, ten combatant commands (CCMDs) at sites around the world, supporting joint and coalition operations use GCCS-J. GCCS-J supports the Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), which is an approach to military decision making that promotes information sharing between all Services. CJADC2 enabling capabilities provide the ability to connect distributed sensors, intelligence, information, data, and effects from all Services to decision makers at the speed of the mission. Key capabilities provided by GCCS-J to support the Joint C2 Mission include: • Addressing the Joint Staff (JS) annual "Top 10" list of capability requirements, which are the high priority items identified by the Joint Staff. • Providing a Common Operational Picture of ground, air, maritime, cyber, and space tracks of U.S., coalition, and enemy forces across each operational and Combatant Command, as well as a Global COP for top tier decision makers. • Making available multiple tactical decision aids and other applications for COP management and situational awareness. • Serving as the system of record for Theater Missile Warning, which provides alerting and display for real time missile events. • Displaying launch points, missile locations, threat fans, and projected impact points. • Providing intelligence support to C2 operators with national and tactical intelligence data from DIA's Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), still and motion imagery, and other resources of intelligence.

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