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RGi wins AGC’s $48M GRIDS III contract

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) has been awarded a five-year contract with the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC) for the Geospatial Research, Integration, Development and Support (GRIDS) III Small Business Set-Aside Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC).

The GRIDS III contract is designed to provide systems engineering and technical services through research and development activities that relate to rapid development, limited fielding and geospatial technology services for the Warfighter.

As part of this contract, RGi will provide the specialized expertise and technical capabilities necessary to assist in coordination, integration and synchronization of geospatial information requirements and standards across the Army; develop geospatial enterprise enabled systems for the Army and the DoD, and provide direct geospatial support to the Warfighter.

“The GRIDS III contract represents a significant milestone for us,” said RGi CEO Stephen Gillotte. “We exist to deliver an immediate impact for soldiers and analysts working on national security issues, and being a part of this long-term contract allows us to deliver meaningful solutions directly to those users.”

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RGi publishes open source GPEP tool

Under the GRIDS II contract, RGi created an open source, lightweight geospatial performance enhancing proxy (GPEP) tool for cascading services that can be utilized in both a connected and disconnected environment. GPEP allows interoperability between systems by using the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) standard while allowing a tactical operating center (TOC) to access map data even while in a disconnected state.

The RGi team utilized the Distributed Common Ground System-Army’s (DCGS-A) existing MapProxy software and added a user interface (UI) and geospatial standards that are NSG compliant. The new tool gives users the capability to download services locally and create NSG-compliant GeoPackages in a SQLite data format, which can then be loaded onto mobile handhelds, web tools and other mapping platforms.

RGi’s new GPEP tool will be distributed to both the Army Geospatial Center (AGC), as well as pushed back to DCGS-A. For more information, visit the project’s repository at https://gitlab.com/GitLabRGI/nsg/gpep.