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It is a satellite-based tracking and communicating system designed to provide command and control over distributed assets supporting and conducting theater operations. This system provides units with digital National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency maps, global positioning system ( GPS ) location data, and L-band (long band) satellite two-way ...
This web-based system provides the current status of requisitions. For example, if replenishment supplies were requested, GCSS provides updates of the current location of those supplies, with their expected time of arrival. [5] It replaces SARSS, the standard Army retail supply system interface. [4] [6]
Joint System Helps Joint Commands: Leadership would have had real-time information to track troops regardless of location or Service branch. A joint system would have given the DoD more ability to deploy resources where they were most needed because they would have been working with real-time information. [4]
Blue force tracking (BFT) systems consist of a computer, used to display location information, a satellite terminal and satellite antenna, used to transmit location and other military data, a Global Positioning System receiver (to determine its own position), command-and-control software (to send and receive orders, and many other battlefield support functions), and mapping software, usually ...
Originally named the Ground Soldier System, its name was changed to Nett Warrior on 14 June 2010 (also the Army's 235th birthday) after then-lieutenant Robert B. Nett who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1944 during World War II. The name was chosen because the system is designed to connect soldiers with the Army's tactical network, and ...
Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) is a communication platform designed for commanders to track friendly and hostile forces on the battlefield. [1] It increases a vehicle commander's situational awareness of the battlefield by gathering information near real-time based on vehicle locations being updated on the battlefield.
SIDPERS' successor, Regional-Level Application System (RLAS, pronounced "are-lass"), is theoretically a Total-Army system, and essentially meshes with DEERS. RLAS is, itself, one of more than seventy obsolete and redundant systems slated for replacement by the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS, pronounced "dime-hurz"), beginning in 2009.
The Armed Forces Financial Network was founded in 1985 at the request of the United States Army to support the "Surepay" direct deposit initiative. [5] The AFFN's role in the Surepay initiative was to be one way U.S. military personnel could gain access to their money. In 2017 the Armed Forces Financial Network launched a chip and pin travel ...