Xterra subcontracted to Northrop Grumman TASC performing software development in support of Navy Emergency Response Management System (NERMS). NERMS is an enterprise turnkey solution, including design, configuration, testing, training and maintenance for a Navy wide Emergency Response System. Tasks included engineering, development and integration of a tailored suite of commercial geographic information system software and services as the geospatial and mapping components of CommandPoint™ Public Safety Application Suite. The geospatial components integrated in this solution use software from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Incorporated.
Xterra supported an innovative architecture study for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) in support of the Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) system. The developed architecture supports the information management and sharing requirements of the emergency responder community. This includes the ability to manage personnel, direct equipment, and seamlessly communicate, gather, store, redistribute, and secure any mission critical information needed by incident commanders and emergency responders during an emergency. Xterra supported the development of the data architecture model using the Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) standard methodology.
Xterra provided systems engineering support to the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. FCS is the core of the Army's efforts to ensure that the Army, as a member of the Joint team, will move, shoot and communicate better than ever before and better than any opponent it will face in the 21st century - any time, under any circumstances, anywhere. The core of the FCS-equipped UA - is a highly integrated structure of 18 manned and unmanned (MUM), air and ground maneuver, maneuver support, and sustainment systems, bound together by a distributed network and supporting the soldier, (18+1+1 systems) acting as a unified combat force in the Joint environment. The network uses a Battle Command architecture that integrates networked communications, network operations, sensors, battle command system, training, and MUM reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities to enable situational understanding and operations at a level of synchronization not achievable in current network centric operations. Xterra provided system engineering and software development support for the development of the Terrain Analyzer Service and the Survivability Planner. Specifically, Xterra supported preliminary software design to include updating specifications, ICDs and APIs, creating an initial Warfighter Machine Interface (WMI) design as defined in the Software Build Plan, and defining default interaction requirements for their services – i.e., what information is presented, how it is presented (map, graph, table, video, etc.) and what interactions are allowed using use cases, sequence diagrams, messages and PDDs. Create UML models.
Xterra provided software development support to the Commercial/Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK) program. The CJMTK program 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 ArcGIS. CJMTK can be viewed simply as the adoption of the ArcGIS platform as the standard geospatial exploitation tool for the DoD C2I systems.
Xterra provided software and systems engineering expertise on the GeoWireless Transportation Security Administration Initial Operational Situational Awareness Capability (TSA IOSAC) Project. The primary objective of the TSA IOSAC Project is to analyze, define, develop and implement a dynamic situational awareness capability that is geospatially and wirelessly enabled. This effort enabled a Situational Awareness capability utilizing mobile tactical devices that were GPS and wirelessly enabled using a Common Operating Picture (COP). Project tasks ranged from installing a secure wireless network at Miami International Airport (MIA), multiple database and web servers at MIA and the Transportation Security Operations Center (TSOC), 5 multimedia workstations at TSA MIA Operations Center, Miami-Dade Police Department, Customs and Border Protection at the Port of Miami, and the TSOC. The development effort integrated Oracle Spatial, Skyline, ESRI ArcIMS and ArcMap, and various other COTS and GOTS products including live weather and aircraft feeds and atmospheric and explosive modeling tools.
Xterra performed software development in support of the Environmental Restoration and Information System (ERIS) web-based application and GIS Viewer for the US Army Environmental Center (AEC). ERIS is an integrated system for collecting, validating, storing, retrieving, and displaying Installation Restoration Program (IRP) and Army Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) data. The purpose of ERIS is to have field, scientific, and engineering data available for analysis as part of a decision support system for funding various remediation/restoration activities. Xterra used Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcIMS, ESRI Spatial Data Engine (SDE) and Oracle Database software to deploy a web client that accesses ERIS tabular and spatial data. This activity has complex reporting and display requirements that facilitate Army decisions regarding environmental hazards detection, containment, cleanup, and restoration. Tasks performed include developing requirements, system design, loading and configuring SDE with digital map data, developing the ArcIMS interface, and configuring the application for web deployment.
Xterra performed software development in support of the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) Environmental Geographic Information System (AEGIS) web-based GIS application. The AEGIS application is a simple to use, web-based mapping tool that enables users to view maps of various infrastructure and environmental features on selected USAF installations. In addition, users can generate tabular reports and custom maps detailing a wide range of groundwater conditions. The purpose of ERIS is to have field, scientific, and engineering data available for analysis as part of a decision support system for funding various remediation/restoration activities. The AEGIS application software comprises Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Spatial extension, and Xmarc, the web deployment software. Tasks performed include loading and configuring Oracle Spatial with digital map data, developing the Xmarc interface, and configuring the application for web deployment.