Are you a “geospatial environment for access, search and content hosting (gSEARCH)” geek?

Does the topic seem too technical for the average emergency manager? Maybe so, but some people might spend their evenings and spare time immersing themselves in such topics. In the past, I wrote about how an ordinary amateur “solved” an “unsolvable problem” that experts had given up on from a different perspective.

So if this pulls your trigger, take it! refer to the following:

Hello xView community,

We would like to inform you about a National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) execution challenge called the gSEARCH challenge.

https://www.nsin.mil/events/2023-01-30-gsearch

The National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) is working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to identify capabilities that will transform the way NGA and its partners transform geospatial technologies for access, search, and content hosting. Start the environment (gSEARCH) challenge. Search and discover geospatial content. NGA is interested in innovative and novel approaches that provide a centralized, web-based user experience for searching and discovering content distributed across government, industry, and partner data repositories. Additionally, this centralized user experience should be able to interoperate with commonly used tools and run large-scale geoprocessing functions as services.

White paper submissions will be evaluated by a team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). After an initial evaluation, up to 10 companies will be selected as finalists to participate in a pitch event the week of March 27, 2023. A $75,000 cash prize will be awarded to the top performers.

For more information on the challenge requirements and associated prizes, please visit the URL linked above.