2008 CJMTK User Conference

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The 5^th annual CJMTK User Conference was held April 1 and 2 at the Heritage Conference Center in Chantilly, Virginia.  The Heritage Conference Center is a state-of-the-art facility with a 320 person auditorium, seven conference rooms, and two breakout rooms – all of which are fully equipped with audio/video capability.  Over 270 users attended representing the  DoD services, Coast Guard, DIA, DISA, NGA and over 50 different contractors.   Based on user feedback, the conference was our best yet.

The Day One Plenary sessions began with presentations by the CJMTK management team: Sue Riley, NGA; Brett Cameron, Northrop Grumman; and Simon Warwick, ESRI. Topics included CJMTK program updates, an overview of the C2I Enterprise Prototype development effort, and a preview of 9.3. In addition, John Day, Director ESRI US Defense Business Development, addressed the topic of “CJMTK: The Power of the Present - The Potential of the Future”. This presentation began with a review of the current state of geospatial technology in C2I systems; and then discussed the future of the military decision making process, including the potential of geospatial components in future battle command. The final morning presentation was an introduction to the CJMTK Geospatial Appliance (CGA). This presentation was an overview of the capabilities and features of the new CGA being offered by Northrop Grumman to support CJMTK Mission Applications with their NGA Geospatial requirements. Specifically, the appliance offers worldwide coverage of NGA VPF, RPF, and DTED Limited Distribution data in application ready formats such as WMS, KML, SOAP, and Geodatabase access.

The second half of the day focused on dynamic overviews of experiences and lessons learned from CJMTK approved mission applications. These presentations discussed migrating to CJMTK for implementation of geospatial capabilities and demonstrated the flexibility of the toolkit by showing enterprise, common service architecture and web service solutions.   Programs presented included:

-        BTRA-CJMTK Engines

-        Joint Geospatial Enterprise Services (J-GES)

-        DCGS-A Multi Function Workstation (MFWS)

-        JICO Support Systems (JSS)

-        Generic Area Limitation Environment (GALE)

Day Two of the conference consisted of technical seminars provided by CJMTK and ESRI.  These seminars focused on a variety of topics including: CJMTK Architecture Guidance, Developing Defense Applications, ArcGIS Server, Developing Applications for ArcGIS Engine, and new capabilities in 9.3. User participation in these seminars resulted in the exchange of ideas and solution approaches. 

The conference also provided opportunities for networking and technical exchange of ideas. Attendees interacted with NGA, MCG&I representatives, CJMTK staff and ESRI presenters. 

The CJMTK program strives to maintain an open environment for communicating and working with our user community.  Our goal is to keep the community apprised of new features and capabilities, lessons learned, and educational opportunities.  The User Conference is a valuable instrument for communicating with our potential and established users and the CJMTK program would like to thank our user community for their participation. 

In addition, we would like to thank ESRI for providing refreshments for the conference.

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