June 15, 2009
Fairfax, Virginia: ManTech International Corporation announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has formally accepted a new system that revolutionises how NOAA produces its national suite of nautical charts. This system – Nautical Chart System II (NCS II) – represents a technological leap forward in creating the charts that mariners need to bring people and goods safely and efficiently through America’s oceans and coasts.
In 2004, NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey partnered with ManTech to develop an integrated production system for NOAA charts. The ArcGIS 9.3 Nautical solution was selected, an offering from ESRI..
ManTech lead the integration activities and worked with NOAA and ESRI to enhance the functional capability of the COTS solution to align with the needs of the NOAA Hydrographic Office community. ManTech also lead efforts working with NOAA to develop and implement workflows and system interfaces required to integrate the COTS solution into a system capable of meeting NOAA Hydrographic Office production line requirements for efficient chart source data application, review and product publishing.
In February 2009, NOAA, ManTech and ESRI, reached a milestone by accepting the integrated solution based on ESRI’s ArcGIS Nautical 9.3 software that outputs charting data to multiple chart products from a single, streamlined database.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages the coastal and marine resources.
