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SUFFOLK, Va. – The Deploying Group Systems Integration Testing (DGSIT) team from Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) N4, in close partnership with Marine Corps Systems Command and other Marine Corps program offices, recently supported Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The collective team provided technical assessments and highly valuable hands-on training at Bogue Field and Camp Lejeune, N.C. As part of pre-deployment preparations, DGSIT enables and delivers readiness by conducting comprehensive Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Information Warfare integration test events in the field and afloat for deploying groups preparing for advanced training and ultimately deployment.
Mr. Darryl Davis, NAVIFOR's DGSIT Atlantic Marine Air Ground Task Force (LANT MAGTF) Coordinator, led the MIT (MAGTF Integration Test) team that put the 22nd MEU through the paces of rigorous testing and evaluation of C5ISR operability and interoperability in advance of their upcoming deployment. Testing and evaluation was concurrent with 22nd MEU Realistic Urban Training (RUT), and included 22nd MEU command element (CE), 2nd Battalion 6th Marines Ground Combat Element (GCE), Combat Logistics Batallion-22 (CLB-22), and the Air Command Element (ACE). Davis led a team of 36 Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that comprised the MIT.
"Our team was on the ground at Bogue Field for six days. Subject Matter Experts, working 22nd MEU personnel, corrected 35 of 43 interoperability issues identified," said Davis. "Working over the shoulder with the Marines, the collective team conducted more than 300 hours of mentoring while executing a comprehensive test plan covering all elements of Marine Corps C4I systems integration."
DGSIT is a vital testing and evaluation program that concentrates on Carrier Strike Groups (CSG), Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG), and MEU’s final hardware and software deployment configuration, and evaluates fielded C5ISR systems with respect to operational employment, integration and interoperability. In a forward deployed environment, whether it is day-to-day operations or a real world response mission, this is not the time to hope that all elements of the group have operational and interoperability connectivity. DGSIT, as a process, provides the deploying group commander an increased familiarity and confidence by demonstrating C5ISR system crew-driven performance. DGSIT NAVIFOR team coordinators, who execute the process, are located on both the east and west coast.
Despite the onset of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, DGSIT remained engaged with fleet readiness processes, conducting 7,800 hours of technical and operational mentoring and training for approximately 1,230 Sailors and Marines. Through a rigorous follow-up process, the program resolved approximately 93 percent of more than 900 interoperability issues.
As directed by Commander United States Fleet Forces, Commander Pacific Fleet and Headquarters Marine Corps, the DGSIT process supports deploying groups across Atlantic and Pacific-based CSGs, ARGs and MEUs. Additionally, the program reaches the Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Japan CSG, ARG and MEU.
As a validation of the C5I modernization process, DGSIT assesses interoperability and integration in an operational environment to support the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (O-FRP) and USMC Pre-Deployment Training Plan (PTP). Results of this formal quality assurance process not only aids the CSG, ARG and MEU Commanders, the formal report becomes a vital feedback loop to the program offices to improve hardware / software developmental processes.
NAVIFOR’s mission is to generate, directly and through our leadership of the IW Enterprise, agile and technically superior manned, trained, equipped, and certified combat-ready IW forces to ensure our Navy will decisively DETER, COMPETE, and WIN.
For more information on NAVIFOR, visit the command Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NavalInformationForces/ or the public web page at https://www.navifor.usff.navy.mil.
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| Date Taken: | 10.28.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.28.2021 08:37 |
| Story ID: | 408196 |
| Location: | SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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