Standard (NITFS) 5-Year Program Plan
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The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) 5-Year Program Plan |
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| The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is the suite of standards for formatting digital imagery and imagery-related products and exchanging them among the Department of Defense (DOD), other Intelligence Community (IC) members, and other United States (US) Government departments and agencies. Resulting from a collaborative US Government and industry effort, it is the common standard used to exchange and store files composed of images, symbols, text, and associated data. | |
| This five year strategic plan describes the current NITFS baseline and the road it is taking to migrate from a suite of DOD standards to a suite of commercially accepted, International Standards (IS) and International Standardized Profiles (ISP). It introduces the improved support that will be provided to imagery and geospatial data users as technologies advance along with operational requirements. | |
| NITFS development, technical review, community coordination, and planning is accomplished by the NITFS Technical Board (NTB) and its Format (FWG), Bandwidth Compression (BCWG), and Communications (CWG) Working Groups. The NTB is a consensus-based government/industry forum that responds to the Geospatial and Imagery Standards Management Committees (GSMC and ISMC). The GSMC and ISMC manage geospatial and imagery standards for the DOD and IC encompassed by the US Imagery and Geospatial Information System (USIGS). | |
| This plan will be revised annually allowing users time to assess the impacts of proposed changes and budget for required changes. Beneficial comments and pertinent data which may be used to improve this plan should be addressed to Gordon Ferrari at the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency (NGA), Standards and Interoperability Division, MS P-24, 12310 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20191-3449. | |
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