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Pixia to assist the NGA with "persistent surveillance"

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) plans to award a contract to the Pixia Corp., of Sterling, VA, to provide data conversion services and software integration that will allow the agency’s Persistent Surveillance Lab to work with massive amounts of still and video imagery.

According to a former U.S. intelligence official, persistent surveillance is the ability to place intelligence assets on a target continuously in order to provide 24/7 coverage.

Pixia has developed unique technology, known as nuiGeoEncoder software, which enables users to retrieve, display and manipulate huge image files.

"The file format represents a quantum leap in performance when managing large files," Pixia explains on its Web site. "Because it achieves this advantage without the need for compression, performance does not come at a price of lost data or diminished resolution."

The award to Pixia, which will be made on a sole source basis, will run for a performance period of seven months, said the NGA, in a solicitation it posted Sept. 8.

The nuiGeoEncoder software will provide up to 11 analysts access to persistent surveillance data at intelligence-gathering locations throughout the U.S.

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