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- Breaking News

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- Let's get more now on our top story

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- On the rise of radical Islamists

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- How do I know what I'm missing?

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- Terror group gains ground in Anbar province.

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- By not having the persistent...

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- This is gonna go down

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- ...ISR across the field.

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- [Lt Col Squadron Commander] The intelligence business

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at its most basic is very simple.

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There's a U-2 flying somewhere, there's some other aircraft

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that has a whole bunch of intelligence

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that's coming off of that particular aircraft.

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Somebody needs to look at that information

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and make sense of it.

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What the DCGS OP center and all the sites around the world

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are doing is taking that data, making it useful information,

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and then passing it back to the war fighter

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as soon as possible.

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^That's what distinguishes DCGS

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^from other forms of intelligence.

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^We're closest to the sensor and we're earliest in the

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^intelligence cycle within that zero to 24 hour window.

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"DOC" in this case stands for DCGS Operation Center.

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What you really see is the heartbeat, the hub of DCGS.

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- [Operator] Can we make that path change to DGS-1?

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- [1st Lt Mission Ops Commander] DCGS

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^is the whole enterprise: Distributed Common Ground System.

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^So, this is a DGS. It's one of the distributed sites.

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^- [Capt Flight Commander]
If we're looking at geospatial

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^intelligence analysis crew or imagery crew,

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^we divide them into two sections.

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^We look at those who are gonna support

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high altitude missions,

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and then those who are gonna support

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full motion video missions.

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- [Male Operator] Can we go back, take a video now?

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- [Senior Airman FMV Analyst] You're on the ground

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and you're standing outside of a building

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^and you don't know what's in there

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^or who's in there.

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^That's where full motion video comes in.

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We'd be watching that building for days, months,

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weeks, and years.

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And we could tell you how many families are living in there,

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how many adult males are in there,

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how many women, how many children.

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And you can tell if someone's left-handed or right-handed

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from some of the training that we've gotten.

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So we're building patterns of life.

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- [Airman First Class] High altitude is...

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^We fly at a very high altitude.

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^And, it's still pictures taken.

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- [Staff Sgt Reports Editor] High alt.

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We're doing a lot more:

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What was, what's here today, what was there yesterday?

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^And we base a lot of it off of historical data that we can

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^research and full motion video doesn't have that.

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- [Tech Sergeant] The DGS has alot of the imagery focus,

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which is a lot of images and you can see that stuff.

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^Signals is more intangible, I guess is a word you could use.

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It's anything from communication signals,

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to performa, to radar signals.

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It's stuff you can't necessarily see.

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- [Radio Communication] 6000-58-07

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- [Staff Sgt Reports Editor] The DART helps us out a lot.

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They'll give us background information on what we're doing

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and why we're doing it.

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- [Capt Flight Commander] They have the ability to take

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the significance of signals intelligence

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and imagery intelligence

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and give you a good assessment, as to what it means.

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- [1st Lt Mission Ops Commander] There are five main DGS'.

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None of them are co-located.

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They're spread out around the world.

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And each of them are responsible for a different area

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or region.

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So that each of them develops an expertise

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but at the same time we retain redundancy.

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- [Senior Airman OBC Analyst] DGS-2 primarily focuses on

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NORTHCOM and sometimes SOUTHCOM missions.

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DGS-2 has FMV, high altitude, and high altitude OBC missions

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which no other DGS has.

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^and we exploit and disseminate products to customers,

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^similar to what they do on the OPS floor here.

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However, we are exploiting physical film.

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The film comes from U-2.

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So we actually go on a light table and digitize

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that film with cameras

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and then we bring it onto our systems

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and exploit it that way.

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- [Captain Weapons Officer] The mission of DGS-3

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is to provide a clear intelligence picture as to

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what is going on in North Korea

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as well as the theater at large

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to the commanders here on peninsula.

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(speaking in Korean)

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^So that they have a solid understanding

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^of what the reality of the threat is

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^and whether or not we need to make any decisions

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^to counter that threat on a daily basis.

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What is unique about how we execute it here at DGS-3

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is that we work as a combined operation

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directly with the Republic of Korea,

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so Republic of Korea airmen are stationed

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at our site and we work hand in hand

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in a way that is not seen anywhere else in the enterprise.

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- [Staff Sgt IM Supervisor]
Here at DGS-4

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we work three different COCOMS:

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EUCOM, CENTCOM, and AFRICOM.

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- [Operator] ...One guy and the fifth guy just branched off.

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- [Staff Sgt IM Supervisor] Depending on that COCOM,

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depends on what kind of mission we're doing.

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So CENTCOM, it's more of a combat role:

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^providing DISR that they need so they can conduct strikes,

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^save people's lives, to perform rescue operations,

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^and things of that nature.

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EUCOM is more indications on warning posture,

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where things are going, how they're moving.

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(shouting)

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If we can tell that one of our adversaries

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is moving a lot of equipment, troops...

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There's a lot of buildup in a certain area, we can

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alert people and say "Hey, this is going on",

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so they can, you know, make policy, alert NATO allies,

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alert the UN, and things of that nature.

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- [1st Lt Flight Commander]
Here at DGS-5 we focus

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primarily on FMV and SIGINT

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And we're looking at the PACOM AOR,

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so all of those specific countries.

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^We do focus on that indications and warning

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^and looking at what if something were to happen,

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^but sometimes that what-if is a humanitarian event

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and we are able to look and see in that country

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if something were to happen, how can we help?

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Where are the biggest areas that need military aid?

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And that's something that we can see from the sky.

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- [Lt Col Squadron Commander] I think the phenomenal thing

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about DCGS is that it's a place where many different

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air force core capabilities and specialties come together.

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We have 15 or 20 different AFFCs

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that are scattered around DCGS,

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and none of it would work without everybody working as

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a coherent and well functioning team.

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^- [Senior Airman Cyberspace] I didn't realize how many

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^how many things like the stuff we saw in the news

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^could happen all the time.

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^I didn't realize how many threats we thwarted.

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So all these people that I work with,

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and all these people that are pulling 12 hour shifts

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and working these long hours,

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and devoting themselves to this are

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doing a job that really

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help provide a blanket of protection

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over the entire United States of America.

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It's great to know that there are so many people

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looking and protecting us 24 hours a day

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365 days a year, all the time.

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Absolutely.

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Seeing everything that could go wrong

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and stopping it before it does.

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