24 March 2001
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
For information about
this announcement,
contact: Mark E. Reichardt
Open GIS Consortium, Inc
Director, Marketing
and Public Sector Programs
(301) 840-1361 Voice
mreichardt@opengis.org
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OGC Solicits Requests for Quotation in Support of a Military Pilot Project
February 8, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia:
"The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today released a Request for Quotation that launches a Military Pilot Project (MPP) designed to promote collaborative development and testing of interoperable, Web-based geospatial and intelligence information infrastructures. Sponsored by the US Army Engineering and Development Center (ERDC), this pilot project will draw on technology developers and integrators to demonstrate the power of OGC specifications and interoperable products in support of national, multinational and coalition defense operations.
Vendors selected to participate
in the OGC Web Mapping MPP Phase I will apply new interoperable products that
contain OGC interfaces to establish a prototype infrastructure that supports
intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and geospatial information dissemination
and utilization on multinational coalition networks and Advanced Concepts Technology
Demonstrations (ACTDs). At the completion of MPP Phase I, these prototypical
infrastructures will be used to conduct joint operational demonstrations, to
illustrate the benefits of interoperable spatial technologies, and provide feedback
into OGC's Specification Development Program..."