Definition of Global command and control system

Global Command and Control System (GCCS, often pronounced "GEEKS" by the Air Force, Army and Navy, "GUCKS" by the Marines and in DISA spelled out G-C-C-S) is a system of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems and applications. Although GCCS is the Department of Defense (DOD) Command and Control (C2) system of record, there are GCCS variants fielded by the US Army (GCCS-A), the US Air Force (GCCS-AF), and the US Navy/Marine Corps (GCCS-M) and Joint Command Centers (GCCS-J) . GCCS was developed to replace the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS). GCCS is an automated system designed to support situational awareness, crisis action planning and other mission areas, and is intended to be the C4I system that supports military personnel from the foxhole to the command post. GCCS provides tools to support the Command Process. The GCCS Family of Systems is on a "migration path." For a time, the term Joint Command and Control (JC2) was in use. More recently the Defense Department chose the term Net-Enabled Command and Control (NECC) as the destination for all current and future tools and applications. As of late 2007, all three terms (GCCS, JC2 and NECC) are in use, often without reference to the relationship between them.