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The Northrop Grumman IT TASC Commercial Joint Mapping Tool Kit
(CJMTK) Team is responsible for the full life-cycle engineering, development,
integration, deployment, maintenance, and sustainment of the CJMTK. The toolkit
must satisfy the needs of the Common Operating Environment (COE) and Network
Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) and promote interoperability via common
software and access to data, independent of its location, together with
reliable and scalable functionality. The toolkit architecture integrates the
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) COTS components with
TASC-developed components to meet Mapping, Charting, Geodesy & Imagery
(MCG&I) functional requirements. The toolkit will be deployed to support
both legacy Mission Applications and new systems being developed throughout the
Department of Defense (DoD) Command, Control, and Intelligence (C2I) Community.
The CJMTK Team provides the overall life cycle engineering, toolkit
development, and systems engineering and software engineering guidance to the
Community to facilitate the migration to CJMTK. The CJMTK Team conducts Special
Studies and Prototyping in support of CJMTK to develop a broader and deeper
Community understanding of requirements, solutions, best practices, and
engineering guidance in developing CJMTK systems.
The CJMTK Program is particularly challenging because it
fundamentally changes the way the DoD conducts business in several ways. First,
the CJMTK is a major acquisition to provide a common commercial software
toolkit for Geoprocessing and visualization to the DoD. Second, the CJMTK moves
the DoD from a functionally-oriented way of organizing architectures and
systems into an object-oriented way of organizing architectures and systems.
Third, the CJMTK provides for a horizontally-integrated, services-based
architecture to facilitate the DoD-wide interoperability. Successful execution
of the CJMTK Program requires preparing the Community for a major migration
toward a new programmatic and technical way of deploying C2I Mission
Applications within the DoD.
Background
This acquisition replaces all of the existing Joint Mapping Tool
Kit (JMTK) functions with Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) components and
provides additional capabilities. JMTK is a suite of government-developed
software applications that were consolidated in 1994 to provide a standardized
geospatial visualization capability to the DoD command and control systems.
JMTK provides the Mapping, Charting, Geodesy, and Imagery (MCG&I)
functionality for mission applications that run in the Common Operating
Environment (COE). It is not an application, but a developer toolkit. JMTK is a
collection of government-owned application program interfaces (APIs) that
enable mission applications to interface with the COE MCG&I functionality.
In the 1999 Defense Authorization Bill, Congress directed that future versions
of the JMTK be based on commercial technology.
The CJMTK is based on a single scalable open architecture,
with open development environments, incorporating industry standards, where
significant research and development costs are borne mainly by vendors,
offering regular software upgrades, extended functionality, and standard,
regular training. The primary commercial component of the CJMTK is
the ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS) software called ArcGIS. This
award can be viewed simply as the adoption of the ArcGIS platform as the
standard geospatial exploitation tool for the DoD C2I systems.
Commonality of platforms, software tools, and processes is a critical factor in
assuring interoperability across COE Mission Applications. The CJMTK provides
those common, commercially based, geospatial tools for the Community, while
enhancing capability and performance. Also, adoption of commercial industry
standards reduces overall integration costs for the various DoD Mission
Applications.
COTS Technology
The CJMTK Program capitalizes on the technical benefits and the
economies of scale of the commercial software industry while providing the
standardization, distribution mechanisms, and life-cycle oversight of the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the Defense Information
Services Agency (DISA) with the Community, domain, and operational knowledge of
the Mission Applications. The CJMTK Program integrates the best of
Government and industry into a common, long-term solution that advances
operational Mission Application development into the next generation of
interoperable systems for the warfighter.
The CJMTK Team
NGA is the Government Program Manager for the CJMTK. Northrop Grumman IT
TASC is the prime contractor. Team members include: ESRI (for the
foundation technology utilizing the ArcGIS architecture), Leica Geosystems (for
image processing), and AGI (for satellite modeling).
DISA
DISA is the overall Program Manager for the COE and is responsible for
establishing and certifying compliance with standards for the COE and the
integration of CJMTK as a Common Support Application into the COE.
The CJMTK User Community
There are three classes of CJMTK user, corresponding to the three different
licensing agreements of the contract. For the first Licensing Option, the
Toolkit Option, the users are the Mission Application Developers
of COE applications, such as GCCS, MCS, and TBMCS. They embed the
CJMTK into Mission Applications, which are then delivered to the end user
community. The MA developers are authorized to use the CJMTK at no
charge. The user community for the second Licensing Option, the Extended
User Community (EUC), are those users who receive the standard COTS
applications from ESRI (such as ArcView, ArcInfo, ArcIMS, and ArcSDE), Leica
Geosystems (such as Imagine), or AGI (such as Satellite Toolkit). This user
community is responsible for funding licenses and maintenance for these
products. The third Licensing Option, the Foreign Military Services (FMS), can
either embed the toolkit in COE Mission Applications or use standard COTS
applications. In either case, funding for these licenses and maintenance is the
responsibility of the FMS Community.
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