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Lockheed Martin And Esri Deploy Geographic Software to Amazon Cloud Services With NGA

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

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Lockheed Martin And Esri Deploy Geographic Software to Amazon Cloud Services With NGA

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Esri deployed commercial software, a portal for ArcGIS, to the Amazon Web Services Commercial Cloud Services (CS2) environment with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Lockheed Martin said on Tuesday.The release of the portal for Esri's ArcGIS geographic information system (GIS) is the first time the companies have deployed software to a cloud service for an intelligence community customer. This provides a unified environment for analysts to securely organize and share geospatial intelligence data throughout the intelligence…

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