15 July 2013. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) hasissued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicitproposals in response to requirements for the OGCTestbed 10.

The RFQ/CFP is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/103.

Responses are due by 5 pm EST on 26 August 2013.

An IP Program and Testbed 10 Q&A Webinar will be held on6 August 2013. More information will be available at the RFQ/CFP URL above. Youare also invited to follow us on twitter, Linkedin or Facebook to stayupdated on the Q&A Webinar, clarifications to requirements, kickoffdetails, etc.

The OGC Testbed 10 Kickoff event for the CCI and OpenMobility threads (see below) will be held 7-9 October 2013 in Washington, DC.The Aviation thread kickoff will be held 27 September in Frascati, Italy duringthe week of the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Frascati.

The Point of Contact is Nadine Alameh: techdesk@opengeospatial.org.

The OGC Testbed 10 sponsors are:

  • AGC (ArmyGeospatial Center, US Army Corps of Engineers)
  • ESA (European SpaceAgency)
  • EUROCONTROL
  • FAA (US FederalAviation Administration)
  • GeoConnections -Natural Resources Canada
  • Harris Corporation
  • Lockheed MartinCorporation
  • NGA (US NationalGeospatial-Intelligence Agency)
  • NOAA NationalWeather Service
  • USGS (US GeologicalSurvey)

OGC Testbed 10 builds on the outcomes of prior OGCinitiatives (http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos) and isorganized around the following threads:

–   Cross-CommunityInteroperability (CCI): Increase Geospatial community interoperability by buildingon CCI OWS-9 work in semantic mediation, volunteer geographic information(VGI), provenance and data quality, and Global Gazetteer. Explore the potentialof interoperability in the hydrology domain and utilizing ontologies to moreeasily share and visualize geospatial data.

–   Open Mobility:Explore the geospatial standards requirements needed to support the growingemerging mobile environment where client applications are mobile, informationservices are mobile, and increasingly distributed across cloud infrastructures.The Open Mobility thread will address these requirements while leveraging onthe work achieved in the OWS-9 Testbed in the areas of Geopackages andGeopackaging services and new OWS Context encodings.

–   Aviation: Developand demonstrate the use of the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM)and the Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM), building on the workaccomplished in prior testbeds to advance the applications of OGC Web Servicesstandards in next generation air traffic management systems to support Europeanand US aviation modernization programs.

The RFQ/CFP includesdetails of these threads as well as details on participation eligibility, selectionprocess and kickoff workshop information.

OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experimentsare part of the OGCInteroperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative agile prototypingprogram designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidatestandards into the OGC StandardsProgram, where they are formalized for public release.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 480companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universitiesparticipating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatialstandards. OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that”geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services, andmainstream IT. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.

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