BAE Systems Delivers Software to Forward-Deployed Warfighters to Expedite Data Searches
March 15 2012 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
The U.S. Army has procured BAE Systems’ commercial data
management software, GXP Xplorer, to reduce the efforts required to
rapidly search for and retrieve geospatial data from various legacy
repositories. Under the terms of the contract, the U.S. Army’s
Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Enabled Common
Ground Station will deploy 50 GXP Xplorer enterprise server
licenses starting in mid-2012.
Soldiers across multiple Army installations can easily locate
current and historical data collections saved on share drives,
servers and in personal files, which is vital to military users who
rotate in-and-out of operating units.
“Intel analysts are challenged to find the data they need, when
they need it,” said Dan London, vice president of sales, marketing,
and customer support for the Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP)
business. “GXP Xplorer allows analysts to find and catalog
information, so they can perform their mission.”
Army brigade combat teams will use GXP Xplorer to identify and
catalog images, maps, terrain, features, videos and documents of
interest on local desktops or across an enterprise. GXP Xplorer
supports the U.S. Army’s transition from legacy data library
systems to an interoperable resource that scales from mobile
devices, ruggedized laptops, enterprise servers and virtualized
environments.
GXP Xplorer crawls different systems, repositories and local
digital ‘shoeboxes,’ as well as unstructured content from social
media networks, where it is stored without moving or duplicating
it. The federated search capability scans multiple sources
simultaneously to locate relevant data — no matter where it resides
— saving up to 75 percent of the time previously required to find
data using legacy systems. The software automatically pulls in new
data and delivers it to a specified destination based on
user-defined search criteria. Raw and processed data can be
previewed prior to retrieval and opened directly into applications,
such as BAE Systems’ SOCET GXP®, for analysis, mission planning and
intelligence reporting.
The software is a valuable resource for analysts, policy makers
or users in the field who have a large repository of data, maps and
imagery to manage.