RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-MC)

FY2027 Request
$112.9M
◆ New start in FY2027
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Project 2268 — Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-MC) requests $112.9M in FY2027, 76% of the $149.1M requested for program element 0206625M — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 9 R-2A activities decompose the request, 9 new this cycle. NIWC-LANT is the largest named R-3 performer at $43.4M, 38% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

New start

This project requests $112.9M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

FY2027 Request
$112.9M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 2268 buys

This is a Military Intelligence Program (MIP) Program Element. Distributed Common Ground System-Marine Corps Intelligence Enterprise Family of Systems (DCGS-MC IE FoS) is a critical Commandant of the Marine Corps Force Design program focused on Reconnaissance/Counter-Reconnaissance that senses and makes sense of the forward operating area, providing robust multi-intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) activities to include sensor fusion and correlation. As the forward sensing element of the maritime force, DCGS-MC provides the foundation for algorithmic warfare at the tactical edge pushing validated target quality information to enable global long range precision fires. DCGS-MC complies with the DCGS Enterprise interoperability and information sharing requirements necessary for PED capabilities via consolidated functional servers, workstations, cloud computing, and advanced technological processing capabilities from a contested, tactical environment to the integrated Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). DCGS-MC capabilities deliver tactically focused, operational, and strategic intelligence across all echelons of the Marine Corps at the tactical edge throughout all phases of operations to provide relevant, precise battlespace awareness, and threat characterization for the Joint Task Force, Naval Force, Marine Air-Ground Task Force, and subordinate Marine units in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and Distributed Maritime Operations. The DCGS-MC IE FoS will consolidate DCGS-MC GEOINT, DCGS-MC All Source and Technical Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Control and Analysis Center (TSCAC) into one program. The DCGS-MC Next Gen FoS addresses intelligence tasking, collection, processing, analysis, exploitation, management, storage, and dissemination capabilities for the Marine Corps Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) in support of the FMF, Maritime Component, or Joint Task Force (JTF) across all warfighting domains and information environments.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
Funding trajectory

Project 2268 funding, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.

25507510000.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED112.9FY27REQUEST42.7FY2841.8FY2944.9FY3048.8FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request112.9
FY2028Outyear42.7
FY2029Outyear41.8
FY2030Outyear44.9
FY2031Outyear48.8
Inside the project

9 accomplishments / planned programs

The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$43.1M

- Continue integration of All Domain Integration and Visualization utilizing MINOTAUR Family of Systems (MFOS). - Continue integration of a Collection Requirements Management and Collections Operations Suite. - Continue MTC-X efforts - Details are held at a higher classification. - Continue the integration of USMC communications pathways…

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Joint Fires Network (JFN) Product DevelopmentNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$20.6M

FY2027 planned work -Procure JFN Server Stack Solution for the MEFs -Procure Frontier Edge Nodes for the MLRs -Conduct test and evaluation of material solutions to ensure systems remain postured to continually integrate with the Joint Force and meet all security requirements.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase reflects initiation of JFN Development.

FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$17.7M

-Continue the development of cloud services migration; workflow automation; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/MIL) data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. -Continue development of modernization efforts, sustainment of existing capabilities, as well as system refreshes for all of Marine Corps All Source. This…

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TSCAC: Product DevelopmentNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$9.0M

FY2027 planned work - Complete development of a LINUX operating system core baseline and integration of containerization capability. - Continue research and development of advanced tactical hardware data processing solutions supporting future capability upgrades. - Continue product development of software in order to enhance the analysis of near-peer signals of interest and the adaptation of evolving technical capabilities to combat the pacing threat. - Initiate hardware and software integration efforts to develop software baselines for tech refresh to expand system processing capabilities.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transitioned from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. $4.101M transferred over from PE 030205208M. Increase from FY2026 to FY 2027 reflects initiation of hardware and software integration efforts supporting technical refresh.

DCGS-MC All Source Test and EvaluationNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$7.3M

FY2027 planned work -Continue the systems development testing and evaluation of a future laptop solution for all-source Marines in support of the stand in force. -Continue testing and evaluation for cloud services migration; to include workflow automation, leveraging AI/ ML data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. -Continue systems test and evaluation of modernization efforts, sustainment of existing capabilities, as well as system refreshes for all of Marine Corps All Source. This includes server capabilities that are utilized by other PoRs. -Continue test and evaluation for hardware and software product improvements necessary for use by All-Source analysts across the MCISRE (MARFORs to…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transition from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. Increase from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects testing and evaluation for Autonomous Multi-domain Sensor Control.

DCGS-MC GEOINT Product DevelopmentNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$6.3M

FY2027 planned work - Continue support for program Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) to include software updates, protection against cyber vulnerabilities, and changes to the GEOINT baseline. - Continue support for integration of DCGS-MC GEOINT software enhancements as identified through configuration control board and engineering review boards in response to Fleet Marine Force requirements. - Continue support for cloud services migration; workflow automation; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. - Continue GEOINT Software baseline application integration and testing to provide built-in machine learning to solve complex analytic problems…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transitioned from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. $6.277M transferred over from PE 0305208M. The decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects the near completion of AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) and hardware refreshes.

DCGS-MC All Source SupportNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.2M

FY2027 planned work -Continue the support of the future laptop solutions for all-source Marines in support of the stand in force. -Continue the support for software product improvements for the all-source systems as the FMF requires new/improved software capabilities. -Continue support for cloud services migration; to include workflow automation, leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. -Continue support of modernization efforts, sustainment of existing capabilities, as well as system refreshes for all of Marine Corps All Source. This includes server capabilities that are utilized by other PoRs. -Continue support for product…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transition from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. Increase reflects additional support for testing and evaluation for Autonomous Multi-domain Sensor Control.

DCGS-MC GEOINT Test and EvaluationNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$3.2M

FY2027 planned work - Continue testing and evaluation for cloud services migration; to include workflow automation, leveraging AI/ML data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. - Continue integration and system testing for GEOINT Software baseline to provide built-in machine learning to solve complex analytic problems. - Continue integration and system testing for the product improvements necessary to support Geospatial workflow automation, and algorithm-based technologies. - Continue integration and system testing advanced Geospatial analysis and visualization toolsets. - Continue testing and evaluation for CGW-Refresh

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transitioned from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. $3.220M transferred over from PE 0305208M. The increase from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects the integration and system testing advanced Geospatial analysis and visualization toolsets.

DCGS-MC GEOINT SupportNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$1.5M

FY2027 planned work - Continue support for program Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) as necessary. - Continue support for integration of DCGS-MC GEOINT software enhancements as identified through configuration control board and engineering review boards in response to Fleet Marine Force requirements. - Continue support for cloud services migration; to include workflow automation, leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) data analysis capabilities and technology advancements. - Continue support for GEOINT Software baseline application integration and testing to provide built-in machine learning to solve complex analytic problems. - Continue support for GEOINT Workstation Refresh - Continue…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Project 2268 transitioned from LI/PE 0305208M to 0206625M. $1.458M transferred over from PE 0305208M. The decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects the near completion of AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) and hardware refreshes.

Who's building it

Named performers on project 2268

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

NIWC-LANT
$43.4M · 38%
NSMA
$35.1M · 31%
DCI
$17.1M · 15%
All Source NIWC-LANT
$7.3M · 6.4%