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US Defense Agency digs in Gemstone

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BEAVERTON: The U.S. military relies on data to make the decisions that impact the American people. To make these crucial security decisions, the military requires immediate and ongoing access to the maximum amount of information possible. Any downtime or delay in obtaining vital security data may lead to a slowdown in military response time and, consequently, the compromise of missions and operations necessary to ensure national well-being.

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has selected GemFiresolution from GemStone Systems, a provider of data infrastructure technologies, to enhance the delivery of command-and-control software to the Global Command and Control System–Joint Program Office (GCCS-J).

Through a partnership withNorthrop Grumman Corporation(NYSE: NOC), a security company, GemFire is providing data management capabilities to arm agencies with up-to-the-minute visibility and situational awareness of military actions wherever they occur.

Northrop Grumman, in support of the DISA GCCS-J Program Office, is working to provide command-and-control software to the U.S. Military Commands, Joint Task Forces, the Pentagon and other vital information-reliant agencies. The Agile Client, an alternative to the standard GCCS-J client, provides three-dimensional views of geographic referenced data. The new data fabric, with its built-in distributed data management functionality, provides lightning-fast caching, support for disconnected operations, continuous querying and real-time analysis to speed the delivery of this vital data to users' desktops anywhere, at any time, as claimed in a press release.

"As the IT systems for monitoring troop movement and military activity become more comprehensive and sophisticated with each passing year, the need to access information in real-time has become absolutely necessary for the U.S. military to do its job," said Brian LaRoche, Director of Joint Command and Control Programs for Northrop Grumman Information Systems sector's Defense Systems Division.