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- STANDARDIZING DATA
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- The Winners: Defense Mapping Agency
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- Three years ago, the Defense Mapping Agency set out to provide
- integrated, electronic views of battle spaces that could be
shared in
- near-real time by war fighters, planners, policy makers and
supporting
- groups. The agency accomplished this goal by standardizing the
- geospatial data required to mount joint military exercises.
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- Using IDEF (integrated CAM definition languages)
methodologies, DMA
- created data models that were consistent with all databases in
the DoD
- community. The result was a suite of standard data elements
that
- describe significant geospatial objects. Such standardized
data helps
- minimize confusion, errors and casualties during military
operations.
- (Jacob Teller, project manager, interoperability division,
Acquisition
- and Technology Group; 301-227-2771)
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