ESRI to provide GIS software component of NIMA commercial joint mapping toolkit contract.

July 9, 2002– ESRI has announced that it will provide the geographic information system (GIS) software component of the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK) contract awarded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) earlier this week.
NIMA selected Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT) to lead the $72 million contract along with a team composed of ESRI; Analytical Graphics Inc.; and Leica Geosystems/ERDAS.
C/JMTK will provide the mapping and geospatial foundation for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE), which is a software infrastructure that enables mission applications, such as the Global Command and Control Systems, to share common support applications such as the C/JMTK. This builds upon the existing Joint Mapping Toolkit, a common suite of government software that has provided the map display, analysis tools, and mapping utilities for potentially all Department of Defense (DoD) command and control systems.
This award will see modern commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) GIS components integrated into the DII COE. This will mean that map displays throughout the Joint and Service Command and Control Systems will utilize ESRI’s ArcGIS platform as a foundation. This will provide the war fighter with a comprehensive range of map display, visualization, and analysis tools providing real-time situational awareness, track management, terrain analysis, multi-INT fusion, and more — all based on a common spatial information infrastructure and all using the same open application framework.
Phase one of the contract will involve the construction of the C/JMTK software developers’ toolkit. This will involve DII COE segmentation, cross-platform support, and legacy system support. Once that activity is complete, the toolkit will be made available to all DII COE programs and contractors. Phase two will consist of the rollout of the C/JMTK toolkit into mission applications — a significant step forward in delivered capabilities.