NATO turns to GMV technology for its new intelligence systems

The technology multinational GMV has been awarded a contract by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to develop the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance resource storage and dissemination system. The project, called Coalition Shared Data (CSD) Services, will be implemented in two phases: an interim system provided by NATO, followed by an enduring solution under this GMV contract.

CSD project has been fully funded by Luxembourg as a Voluntary National Contribution to NATO’s Allied Command Operation. The contract value of the CSD Enduring Solution project is approximately 5.5 million euros.

This project upgrades the results of NATO’s MAJIIC2 program (Multi-Intelligence All-Source Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition) to an operational state. MAJIIC2 sets out to provide the necessary tools for maximizing the use and interchange of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) information. GMV is participating in the project with funding from the Directorate General of Armaments and Material (DGAM) of Spain’s MoD.

CSD Enduring Solution will be integrated into NATO’s system infrastructure. It targets the specification, design, development, testing, deployment and support of CSD capacity based on the MAJIIC2 program (subsequently to be standardized in STANAG 4559 Edition 4). Under this project GMV has developed a series of systems for compiling information from a host of different sources in different formats (video clips, imagery, radar, etc.), providing intelligence analysts with the necessary tools for exchanging ISR information and workflows to enable interaction in all JISR phases.

CSD Enduring Solution will be made up by three different components:

• CSD ISR Product Library (CIPL) Services. This service provides persistent, searchable storage and archive of JISR data, such as imagery and video clips, analysis products and their associated metadata.
   
• CSD ISR Workflow Services (CIWS). This Service will provide a complete set of services to enable a workflow of JISR Processes, defined as Task, Collect, Process, Exploit and Disseminate (TCPED).This process allows situational awareness of the state of all requests and collections across the NATO JISR Enterprise.
   
• CSD ISR Stream Services (CISS). This Service provides access to live or recorded streaming data types, such as Full Motion Video (FMV), video clips, or Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) data and their associated metadata.

This project falls under GMV’s ongoing, decade-long work on JISR systems. The Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Capability (JISR) initiative synchronizes and integrates the planning and operation of all information-obtaining capacities with operation and processing capacities, plus dissemination of the resulting information to the addressee in due form and time. All this as direct support of present and future operations.

This project ushers GMV into the small fold of important NCIA contractors, further consolidating its business in the international defense and security panorama.