Raytheon unveils new capabilities to deliver fast, mobile technology
To help meet the demands of a rapidly moving world, Raytheon has created an online app marketplace and an online service solution to deliver technical capabilities to customers faster than they can get them today.
Raytheon is unveiling the Appsmart™ market and GOtab™ online services during this year's GEOINT 2011 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 16 to 19.
The Appsmart market targets users in the defense, intelligence and first-responder communities for faster technology delivery than they can get today.
"The Appsmart market isn't just an apps store," said Mark Bigham, vice president of Business Development for Defense and Civil Mission Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems. "It's a marketplace that connects app developers to customers to get capabilities into the hands of tactical-edge users quickly and securely."
One of those capabilities, which can be delivered via Appsmart or directly to multiple platforms, is called GOtab online services. GOtab online services enables users to discover and access geospatial intelligence data, products and services online and on-demand. GOtab responds to users' need for rapid, easy-to-access geospatial intelligence information providing timely access to the most current information for a military operation, a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis.
"GOtab is a visual GEOINT User environment that offers intuitive access to applications, data, information, products, tools, analytics, and services when and where the user needs them," said Kevin Brown, Technical Director for GEOINT Programs within Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems. "GOtab is more than an app. It is an integration of apps or an app of apps concept that empowers users to solve both routine and complex GEOINT challenges."
Both the Appsmart market and GOtab online services are in beta versions now.
A future version of the Appsmart market, for example, will include a software developers kit developers can download and use to develop apps, uploading them securely back into the market for sale.
"The idea is that the Appsmart market will be self-sustaining and performance-based, protecting intellectual property of third-party developers," Bigham said. "Because it's a marketplace, Appsmart will incentivize innovation through market forces."
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