By On June 5, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted the Holmes request for information (RFI). Responses are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on June 26.
NGA, in support of the Discovery Services PMO, is seeking information on how an interested contractor could provide technical expertise and services required to maintain, develop, implement, sustain, and modernize software supporting mission essential NGA capabilities for The Globe and GEOINT Search and Retrieval (GSR). This effort is a consolidation follow-on of two legacy contracts: Agile Web Presence II (AWPII) and Yorktown II (YTII).
The NGA Enterprise Services (TE) group provides and secures the enterprise IT infrastructure, transport, platforms, data, and services that enable NGA operations and delivery of GEOINT to the tactical edge. The GEOINT Services Office (TEG) is dedicated to revolutionizing the delivery of geospatial content, services, and applications when and where customers need them. TEG’s mission is to provide NSG users with the ability to find, get, use, and contribute geospatial data, content, and capabilities on all domains, at all times, and in any mission environment. These IT systems provide a broad range of capabilities and services for search, discovery, presentation, and dissemination of a variety of GEOINT data from both internal NGA and selected external content providers.
The Globe is NGA’s online connection to geospatial knowledge serving as the front door for NGA customers since 2008 currently hosted in NGA’s CORE OpenShift platform. mGlobe is NGA’s low bandwidth Globe instance hosted on the NGA’s AWS Cloud environment. Globe integrates geospatial content, tools, and intelligence in an engaging environment. It provides mission value to DoD and the Intelligence (IC) by providing easy access to NGA generated GEOINT, robust search, curated topic pages, a listing of NGA services and tools, Discovery Catalog, and NGA Support Team contacts. This is provided across four networks and includes a unique view for Congressional support (CAPNET).
The Globe is positioned to further the NGA Strategic and Operational Objectives 2023 with a centralized web presence and flexible search capabilities. The Government plans to focus on user experience, performance, process improvements, and content relevance improvements.
The GSR IT system is a set of application services hosted in NGA CORE OpenShift platform on all three security domains providing user and system search, discovery, and dissemination of a variety of GEOINT data from both internal NGA and selected external content providers. GSR provides capabilities to easily search and retrieve content needed for missions regardless of the producer, format, or storage location of the data. Additionally, GSR streamlines the process for integrating new or updated content with a flexible ingest pipeline which includes extensive data engineering to normalize disparate metadata into a common framework for a better user experience.
Source: SAM
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