GIS and Mapping

ObjectFX wins U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s Industry Achievement Award for developing SpatialRULES

December 16, 2010

ObjectFX Corporation announced that their President Steve Panzer and Chief Technology Officer David Hemphill received the 2010 USGIF Industry Achievement Award. ObjectFX was presented with the award last month at the annual GEOINT conference in New Orleans, LA for developing and deploying SpatialRULES, a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for geospatial data. Each year the USGIF presents one award to each of the most influential contributions to the geospatial intelligence community from academia, government, and industry. Recognized for outstanding achievements and innovations, winners are selected based on their advancement of the intelligence tradecraft.

“It’s quite an honor to be selected,” said Mr. Panzer. “This is a testament to the hard work and contributions of not only our people at ObjectFX but our mission partners as well. ObjectFX places a high value on our Government and systems integrator partnerships within the intelligence community. This award recognizes that we’re making important contributions to the national security market.”

According to the announcement, ObjectFX originally developed SpatialRULES in cooperation with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). As a complex event processor, SpatialRULES is capable of analyzing billions of sensor inputs to detect events such as when objects cluster together or move apart, when a population suddenly increases or decreases within a zone, or when objects move into or out of geo-fenced areas. The technology provides for real-time monitoring, filtering, analyzing and alerting, based on multiple streams of data.

“An important advantage SpatialRULES delivers is the ability to correlate events between many different kinds of data sources using time and location,” Mr. Hemphill said. “This provides a linking mechanism to fuse tens, hundreds, or thousands of data sources together into a common view.”

By cross correlating multiple layers of intelligence, a more complete picture is formed, providing better decision making tools for C4ISR, situational awareness, mission planning, force tracking, and other intelligence, defense, and homeland security missions. In both the real-time and forensic modes, SpatialRULES can enhance the analyst’s capabilities so they can be more efficient and effective with the resources they have, while dealing with dramatically increased data loads.

ObjectFX reported that in addition to the technology itself, the USGIF award recognized two other major achievements: moving technology from R&D into a major deployed program, and enhancing cooperation across the Intelligence Community between NGA and one of its key mission partners.