-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Defense Systems (Aug 4) - "NGA awards $335 million contract [to BAE Systems] for Map of the World project": http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2014/08/04/NGA-contract-BAE-Map-of-the-Wo...
[The National Geospatial Agency (NGA)] awarded BAE a contract worth a maximum of $335 million for help in developing the collection, maintenance and utilization of geospatial intelligence data and products. The MoW project is expected to serve as the backbone for the agency’s intelligence analysis and collection efforts, and represents the agency’s move from static maps to dynamic ones.
Expected to be finished by 2020, the project would eventually allow NGA’s partners and customers to visualize and access integrated intelligence information relative to geographic features of the planet, according to a strategy document released by the agency.
It's no surprise that BAE Systems won the $0.335B contract as they seem to lead the defense contractor pack in honing the practice of Activity Based Intelligence (ABI), previously called Pattern of Life Analysis. http://www.baesystems.com/article/BAES_162827/inside-activity-based-intellig... NSA is one of NGA's clients, and this project will solve their desire to visualize the physical infrastructure of the Internet in realtime. Here's an interview with former NGA Director Letitia Long, whom I believe initiated the project. Federal Computer Week (Apr 15) - "Long: NGA is moving toward 'immersive intelligence'": http://fcw.com/articles/2014/04/15/nga-moving-toward-immersive-intelligence.... gf - -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT4ij8AAoJEMaAACmjGtgjcegP/1luWz8bWBt+KviBZD0PUPbT S+lj0bPjEsXURFGbn/Tr/Hr2Ls3C6XDBHMAINKp992cmDsKd4l2bHGb5ukbSPX4i Ln1Vbouv1EK1yao3uG6KOPnwFhywbfanz1tq4pPwgr5Zot6flUDGCpbnJh7PaBRu AbCNk7aUxM1GO/eH4tk7OMUSGc6WMsvbh2eQGM5equyWdYJf7/ZH6yAr2PxqtbIe uePlnjPd7yMkqKi3f4aUz7MscfOQAaMOHAr/WK3/QRsS/AZO0tqsiNbeVkL3rQ79 qcJ1MQTxY5CdWVOlNxuGmKXf8S0kHvJueOQIAaKbK7vSiYKD1kuSegpkRX+3DG3N r0mJCCHCgpG0Iv9xSzskQ7u0rzMcZWzKt+U82UEU0ONdU9LhZlFrjzzxWXIvkJfP VYqiupo5L+QuZbIn6Lav5yhII6vSjvHJCH9i3Lfn/L36NJDe73U9zmXmmB9MQ8QB MJWpdK8MZbdmzQAxxGWyGldefDz6VPeB/yiPgPQsBouvMEd/yaitCiCF/eQQl2us o6wbsDjoKMoCpBJvvq+Mz9FU+w661vBJ4DQuYywtyTXHPWzuqM5uYvKgjP/KJ6In fhK1hLU9seJMRkHKyUDtU5GMq0PLWbJw09zlWMOlDV1U+9jDtgkHTFJc3O9gjiTE 83i/TewTenQ8rvy14Fgm =E6e5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----