[10-22-07 – Satellite Today]  Northrop Grumman Corp. has added a new product that combines National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) products with commercial software, the company announced Oct. 22.

The Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (CJMTK) Geospatial Appliance was developed in conjunction with the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.  and provides application-ready data for developers and end users of geospatial information. This enables access to a complete set of worldwide geospatial information used for supporting command and control, emergency operations, humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution, intelligence and special operations, and other defense-related activities.

The CJMTK Geospatial Appliance comes in two versions, a ruggedized deployable server that can support 50 users at one time and a configurable server that can support up to 300 users. Both include content management tools, maintenance, data and software update services, and a portfolio of geospatial data over global, strategic, operational and tactical base maps.