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'''DTRACS''' was a tracking and control system used by United States military units in Europe and South West Asia (SWA). The system is actually a commercial off the shelf (COTS) product from [[Qualcomm]]. Its commercial name is OmniTRACS and is in use by commercial trucking fleets throughout the world. Initially, when the system was first in use by the [[US Army]] in Europe (USAREUR), it was run through an Alcatel contract out of Paris with a [[data feed]] to the USAREUR G4 Logistics Automation Division (LAD).
After it became more heavily used, it was determined that the Army needed its own secure hub on a military base in Germany. This hub was located in [[Mannheim, Germany]] outside of Coleman Barracks<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barracks</ref> at a ___location known as the "tank-farm". This ___location was chosen because it already housed other satellite hubs, one of which was for AFN.
The Land Earth Station (LES) portion of the system was maintained by a company called Data Path (which was acquired by Rockwell Collins in 2009<ref>http://www.rockwellcollins.com/news/page12220.html</ref>). The servers that processed the messages and GPS ___location information through the QTRACS software were initially housed in Friedrichsfeld, [[Germany]] and maintained by the USAREUR G4 office. The G4 contracted this work out to the Titan Corporation (now owned by L3 Communications). Management of the program was eventually turned over to PEO EIS.<ref>http://www.eis.army.mil/</ref> The servers were eventually moved to [[Kilbourne Kasserne]] in [[Schwetzingen]]. This move was made because the facility at Friedrichsfeld was not robust enough and had a poor communications path with no redundancy. The site in Schwetzingen, also known as "Site-S", had better comms and was also an official military [[Network Operations Center]] (NOC).
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