By On July 25, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted a request for proposals (RFP) for an Electronic-Instrument Procedures Library (E-IPL) audit. Questions are due by 9:00 a.m. Central on July 31, and proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. Central on August 12.
NGA delivers Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Aeronautical Safety of Navigation (SoN), and Maritime SoN information that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals, humanitarian efforts and first responders. NGA supports the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG), which supports our Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community (IC). NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency and leads the world in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable GEOINT.
The GEOINT community operates in a dynamic mission environment. NGA must leverage all available and emerging national, DoD, commercial, and international partners and suppliers to match the pace and needs of this dynamic environment, both now and in the future. The need to broker content on a large scale is increasingly apparent and imperative.
An important subset of GEOINT called Foundation GEOINT (FG) describes/models the physical and political characteristics of the Earth. The FG Program, which has Aeronautical, Maritime, Geography, and Geomatics components, facilitates the integration of geospatial data, information, and services for intelligence and combat customers. It focuses on global digital data coverage with refined data maintenance to provide mission-essential content, where, when, and how it is needed before it is requested.
NGA, as a GEOINT Broker, will provide the means and mechanisms to address customer and partner needs. In doing so, it will significantly alter the way those needs are met, more fully leveraging the capabilities and content of national, DoD, commercial, and international partners and suppliers.
NGA has long provided time-sensitive Aeronautical SoN information and data to support DoD operations. This information and data are used for mission planning, navigation, and aircraft flight management systems, and production is generally synchronized to the internationally coordinated 28-day Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control (AIRAC) cycle. However, the exponential increase in DoD flight operations and need for global access has led to a reliance on ad-hoc production to support emergent requirements. To provide durable support for contingency operations, the DoD needs a complete worldwide catalog of pre-existing and maintained DoD-owned Terminal Instrument Procedures (TIPs).
NGA is committed to producing and maintaining a worldwide catalog of DoD-owned procedures, comprised of Instrument Approach Procedures (IAPs), Departure Procedures (DPs), and Standard Terminal Arrivals (STARs). This catalog will be disseminated electronically via web services and mobile applications. Categories of products in the catalog include but are not limited to: validated TIPs in the DoD Flight Information Publication (FLIP) (Terminal), and other TIPs designed to close gaps in DoD FLIP coverage, currently called the (E-IPL). E-IPL procedures are direct conversions of host nation TIPs from their native graphical format into the standard DoD “Volpe” format per U.S. military graphical specifications.
NGA requires a service to assume the task to conduct an independent, third-party audit of the existing E-IPL, currently consisting of approximately 12,000 flight procedure graphics in Adobe’s Portable Document File (PDF) format. This effort will consist of a comprehensive data sample of published IAPs, DPs, and STARs based on the current cycle at the time of the audit.
Source: SAM
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