NORTHROP GRUMMAN HIGHLIGHTS GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS AT GEO-INTEL 2003
Demonstrations Show Network-Centric Warfare
Through Geospatial Intelligence Solutions
Contact: Juli Ballesteros, APR
(703) 713-4675
juli.ballesteros@ngc.com
NEW ORLEANS -- Oct. 13, 2003 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Information Technology (IT) sector will showcase solutions to some of the defense industry's most pressing problems in Booth Number 115 at this week's GEOINTEL show.
The company's theme at the show is "Defining the Future of Geospatial Intelligence," and booth demonstrations will feature Northrop Grumman IT's geospatial intelligence capabilities, including the sector's "sensor-to-shooter" concept of networkcentric warfare through geospatial intelligence solutions, geospatial data/information sharing across and within enterprise architectures, and other demonstrations.
The company's CMMI Level 3 certified software engineering rating factors into expert Web-based solutions, which allows analysts to work collaboratively to develop value-added geospatial intelligence information derived from raw sensor imagery. These booth demonstrations will show how Northrop Grumman IT has solved one of the industry's toughest problems—geospatial data/information sharing across and within enterprise architectures. Network-centric warfare completes the sensor-to-shooter life cycle and shows how geospatial intelligence gets back to the shooter.
Northrop Grumman IT's booth demonstrations include:
- Geospatial Interoperability Architecture. This demonstration uses portalbased technology combined with wireless PC tablets to demonstrate access to geospatial information stored in disparate locations.
- Geospatial Enabled Network-Centric Warfare Enabled Through Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK). This demonstration is an architectural demonstration for mobile tactical infrastructures enabled through C/JMTK geoprocessing technology. Last year, Northrop Grumman IT was awarded a contract to develop the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's C/JMTK. C/JMTK provides military and intelligence agencies with a common suite of imagery software.
- Global Command and Control System Integrated Imagery and Intelligence. This demonstration highlights a collections management mission application that is integrated and deployed in support of the Joint Deployable Intelligence Support Systems Joint Program Office.
- Web-based Production/Dissemination. This demonstration is a representation of the data providers and spatial aggregators creating and updating data warehouses using raw data from sensors, such as imagery.
In addition to the booth demonstrations, Stu Shea, vice president, executive director, Space & Intelligence, Northrop Grumman IT TASC, will moderate a panel discussion on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. on "The Foundation of Security." National decision makers will discuss how strategic geospatial information assets can be shared across jurisdictions and help with critical decision-making.
The panel will feature Rich Haver, vice president, Intelligence Strategy, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and former special assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Tom Behling, deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence; Lt. Gen. Thomas Goslin, deputy commander, U.S. Strategic Command; and Jim Caverly, senior executive, Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.
Northrop Grumman Information Technology, headquartered in Herndon, Va., is a trusted IT leader and premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients. The company's expertise spans such areas as information systems integration; information technology security; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR); homeland security; enterprise hardware and software solutions; training and simulation; base and range support; signals intelligence; health informatics; space systems; and specialized scientific, engineering and technical services.
