NGA contracts SSS Research for software

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced a partnership with Illinois-based SSS Research for work on the NGA Earth eGeoInt project.

SSS Research will supply the project with its trademarked GeoBoost Visual Intelligence software, a combining of spatial or geospatial data with business intelligence data for location and time-specific analysis in a visualization portal.

Company officials say the Visual Intelligence brings together geospatial visualization technology and business intelligence into a thin-client platform.

“We are very pleased to have been selected to provide the visualization software for this key initiative,” said Stephen Eick, SSS Research chairman and chief executive officer, in a statement. “NGA plays such an important role in supporting the Intelligence and Defense communities, we are happy to collaborate on such a critical analysis tool.”

According to the company release "before the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, organizations were limited in their ability to leverage Geospatial Information Systems and other location-based data. SSS Research has leveraged Web 2.0 and open data standards to enable geospatial visualization, collaboration, and analysis to users through a software solution that requires only a web browser."