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October 15, 2007 NORAD-USNORTHCOM Program Wins USGIF Award in Military CategoryRedlands, California—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 is an ambitious program 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 geographic information system (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, fielded for the 2007 hurricane season, is an example of how partnerships contribute to homeland defense and defense support to civil authorities’ missions. For the SAGE program, NGA and its ESRI support team developed a two-dimensional geospatial viewer through Project Homeland, and the SPAWAR C4I Engineering Support Team implemented ArcGIS Server 9.2 to host data services. 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 defense support to civil authorities for years to come. The services, technology, and software will ensure that knowledge workers from USNORTHCOM and its mission partners, from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the National Guard Bureau (NGB), will have access to the best available geospatial information at all times. Specifically, SAGE allows track data from the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) to be inserted into the data rich environment of GIS, building a complete picture. Commanders, analysts, and other users can now fuse geospatial content from Core Geographic Services with other forms of information for command and control, intelligence, and logistics applications. Core Geographic Services provided from SAGE form the base architectural building block in providing key data through a service-oriented architecture. This project brings together ESRI's world-leading GIS software with the latest database technology and hardware. At the heart of the system is ESRI's ArcGIS Server, which provides services to USNORTHCOM and its mission partners through an Internet Mapping Service and to other DoD Command and Control Systems through standard Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), interfaces. 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. The geospatial capabilities provided by SAGE and ESRI’s suite of applications continue to be the cornerstone of USNORTHCOM’s initiative to provide better understanding to its leadership and drive its desire to share geospatial content with its mission partners. # # # Press Information: |
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