# Distributed Common Ground System **Entity class:** System **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) is the family of military systems for processing, exploiting, and disseminating intelligence across services and operational echelons. ## Chronological Proximity Its 2000s–2010s growth coincided with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Palantir's rise, and the dispute over Army intelligence software. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Distributed Common Ground System-Army|DCGS-A]] is the Army implementation; Palantir became its commercial antagonist and later an acquisition-system challenger. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].