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September 2008 | SOCET SET | Software update

SOCET SET® software to play vital role in NGA workstations

Submitted by Bruce Warren
SOCET SET® engineer
FPE workflow in SOCET SET.

FPE workflow in SOCET SET.

The front-end processing Environment (FPE), which has been in use by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) since 1997, is due to be replaced by SOCET SET® v5.4.1 at the end of September. FPE, which is a UNIX®-only system, currently provides the vital NGA requirement for geopositioning, and creates Digital Point Positioning Data Base (DPPDB) format production module* and Controlled Image Base (CIB)® format production module* products for U.S. troops in the field. These digital map products are used for terrain analysis, and to determine precise image coordinates such as latitude, longitude, elevation, and other image data for simulation, targeting, and mission planning operations.

SOCET SET® engineers have been steadfastly porting more than 200,000 lines of FPE code into the product’s baseline since SOCET SET v5.2, and have provided a multitude of improvements over the current FPE software along the way. Not only will the new system be Windows® compatible, but the workflows have been streamlined to provide a much easier means of creating the DPPDB-like and CIB-like products. SOCET SET also introduced the use of the Condor® distributed processing system to improve throughput for computation-intensive portions of the workflows.

The NGA is integrating SOCET SET software into its integrated exploitation capability (IEC) workstations for the version 6.1.2 release. IEC recently received NGA approval for its Initial Operating Capability to replace FPE. The next step is for NGA to approve Final Operating Capability (FOC), which is expected at the end of September, 2008. There is still a lot of hard work left to do, but if FOC is approved, the entire FPE system soon will be retired and replaced by SOCET SET.

* SOCET SET Digital Point Positioning Data Base (DPPDB) format production module [which uses MIL-PRF-89034, March 1999 format specifications] and SOCET SET Controlled Image Base® (CIB) format production module [which uses MIL-PRF-89041, 15 May 1999 format specifications]

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