# Distributed Common Ground System-Army **Entity class:** Army intelligence system **Aliases:** DCGS-A ## Definition The **Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A)** is an Army intelligence-processing, analysis, and dissemination environment. It is listed among the operational systems with which IEWTPT can interface for realistic training. ## Relationships - **enterprise:** [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|United States Army Intelligence]]. - **training interface:** [[wiki/Intelligence Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer|IEWTPT]]. - **adjacent platforms:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence Data Platform|Army Intelligence Data Platform]] and [[wiki/TITAN|TITAN]]. - **source context:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]]. ## Chronological Proximity DCGS-A became a central Army intelligence environment during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and was contested by Palantir through field demand, procurement conflict, and 2016 litigation. ## Relational Proximity It is the Army branch of [[wiki/Distributed Common Ground System|DCGS]] and the institutional counterpart against which [[wiki/Gotham|Palantir Gotham]] demonstrated commercial intelligence-platform capability. ## Chronology and Collection Routes [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]