Northrop Grumman team wins NIMA deal

Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles won a $72 million contract to develop a mapping tool kit for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the company announced July 9.

Under the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit contract, Northrop Grumman's Information Technology sector will develop a commercial version of NIMA's Joint Mapping Toolkit, which provides military and intelligence agencies with a common suite of imagery software with mapping utilities, analysis tools and visualization for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance interoperability systems

The commercialization will provide enhanced functionality, interoperability and value by combining the best that government and industry have to offer in applying standard mapping software to the Defense Department's needs, Northrop Grumman said.

The commercial tool kit will provide the mapping foundation for the defense information infrastructure common operating environment. The environment is a software infrastructure that enables interoperability of mission applications, such as shipboard command and control systems, theater battle management core system and global command and control systems.

The commercial tool kit will insert commercial geographic information systems components into the common operating environment and associated command and control systems.