NORAD-USNORTHCOM program wins USGIF award in Military category

The Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Command C4I Engineering Support Team received the 2007 United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s (USGIF) Intelligence Achievement Award in the Military Category for its support of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) Situational Awareness Geospatial Enterprise (SAGE).

The SAGE project partners include ESRI; the Naval Surface Warfare Center located in Dahlgren, Virginia; and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). SAGE program was developed to create a User-Defined Operational Picture (UDOP). Its goal is to geospatially enable the knowledge workers within the command by instituting an enterprise GIS capability that everyone can use. This allows the users to build a UDOP configured to meet their individual needs for data and display.

SAGE delivers a two-dimensional client that is available via a Web interface and a three-dimensional client based on ArcGIS Explorer. The customized ArcGIS Explorer client allows users to search datasets primarily provided by NGA through the Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP). Members of USNORTHCOM’s staff will also use ESRI's ArcGIS Desktop to conduct complex GIS analysis and data integration. This project will lay the foundation for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) unclassified common operational picture and will shape the application of geospatial technology in defence support to civil authorities for years to come.

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