The Defense Mapping Agency and tomorrow´s advanced aerospace warfare systems

The authors discuss Aerospace Warfare Program Office (SGWA) support to the DMA data user in defining MC&G (mapping, charting, and geodetic) data requirements, and detail DMA´s standard, prototype, and future MC&G products. SGWA´s functions are described in detail so the reader can understand SGWA´s role as DMA´s interface with Air Force program managers, systems developers, and contractors to assist in the determination of future MC&G requirements. The cooperative interaction between SGWA, the program manager, system developers, and their contractors is emphasized as the key to ensuring that the MC&G requirements for the development and fielding of future weapons and systems can be satisfied with appropriate MC&G products. By conducting requirement analyses during the early development stages of advanced aerospace weapons and systems, SGWA can assist program managers and system developers to design these systems to accommodate and utilize standard or proposed DMA digital MC&G data products that are designed for a wide range of MC&G applications. In that way, the program manager´s system will be able to use the most appropriate MC&G data, and thus allow the system to operate in the most efficient and effective manner possible