NGA Metadata Cataloging and Management Services (MCAMS)
NGA provides critical support to the national decision-making process and the operational readiness of America’s military forces. Their mission is to provide timely, relevant, and accurate Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) in support of National Security objectives. To remain operationally effective within a fluid, unconventional domain, NGA must advance in capability and analytic methodology. Previous production systems lacked the tools to manage products and assets. NGA intelligence producers used a series of disconnected / unintegrated legacy systems in combination with collections of COTS products. Together, they are counterintuitive and insufficient in meeting mission needs and as a result, analysts were unable to discover and reuse assets to create new products.
OMNI provides software development and software engineering support to deliver the Apollo Metadata Management System (Apollo). Our software engineers, architects, and data engineers built the system on an unclassified development platform that can create, tag, and track metadata of legacy and new geospatial assets and products to enable discovery and reuse on all three domains. Through the Apollo user interface, an analyst or decision maker using the Apollo system can review and edit the metadata tags for work products and add comments and ratings to those products to facilitate collaboration, discovery, and reuse. This empowers users to efficiently provide and gather insights from data on an enterprise-wide basis. Apollo addresses the need to neutralize the challenges introduced by a complex data landscape, maximize the value of its assets, and empower data analysts to efficiently gather and share insights from those assets.