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Team SPARTA is on track to deliver
An industry team led by Lockheed Martin UK is close to completing ground-breaking research that will enable military, blue light services and other public sector bodies to co-operate more effectively in times of emergency.
Team SPARTA was awarded a 29-month contract in 2008 by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to look at ways of delivering a coherent geospatial enabling capability and thus improve interoperability between defence, security and emergency services by enabling them to create and share geospatially referenced information across a range of platforms and networks, removing the need for data silos. The aim is to provide technical evidence and de-risk activity to support possible future possible future developments in this area.
Through a coherent set of standardised and common geospatial services and COTS based functionality, the Common Geospatial Tool Set (CGTS) provides users with the ability to find, create, exploit, view and share geospatially referenced information consistently and securely on platforms and applications across all defence communications infrastructures and stand-alone.
The operational benefits delivered through the implementation of an open-standards based approach include: increased operational effectiveness through information sharing; enhanced shared situational awareness through the delivery of tailored but consistent views; integration of multiple data sources, applications (and vendors) across low/high bandwidth networks; and improved analysis of location based information through the use of wizards and services.
