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BAE SYSTEMS And eSpatial Form Strategic Partnership To Provide Advanced Imagery Solutions

27 May 2003

BAE Systems C4ISR and eSpatial today announced a strategic partnership to develop and supply four-dimensional secure imagery solutions based on eSpatial's proven commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies.

eSpatial's iSMARTv product suite provides a unique, open standards infrastructure for spatial applications delivered on COTS database technologies. It features highly scalable and efficient server-based processing of geographic, spatial and image data for fast delivery to a distributed user community. This meets the Network Enabled Capability (NEC) needs of the defence community and removes the limitations imposed by traditional desktop approaches. iSMARTv offers real-time data update, enhanced visualisation and high quality analysis of geospatial and image information over very low bandwidth networks, freeing communications capacity for other tasks.

'Key to the delivery of spatial information systems is the ability to integrate multiple high volume data sources and to distribute that data to users in precisely the graphical format and footprint that they need,' said Philip O'Doherty, Group Chief Executive Officer, eSpatial. 'eSpatial's iSMART technology provides new levels of service for geospatial information integration and distribution.'

'Under the partnership, BAE Systems C4ISR will develop and deliver next-generation solutions to support NEC based on eSpatial's iSMART technologies. They will provide commanders with a complete and constantly updated picture of their battlespace environment. The first applications to be developed under the partnership will be demonstrated to the defence community at BAE Systems, Battlespace Management Evaluation (BME) Capability centre in Farnborough, UK, next month,' said Kevin Porter, BAE Systems C4ISR's Director of Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance.

About BAE SYSTEMS:

BAE Systems is a systems company, innovating for a safer world. BAE Systems employs nearly 100,000 people including Joint Ventures, and has annual sales of around 12 billion. The company offers a global capability in air, sea, land and space with a world-class prime contracting ability supported by a range of key skills. BAE Systems designs, manufactures and supports military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, radar, avionics, communications, electronics, guided weapon systems and a range of other defence products. BAE Systems is dedicated to making the intelligent connections needed to deliver innovative solutions.

BAE Systems C4ISR is a global centre of excellence supplying innovative, network enhanced solutions focused on military capability. The Group integrates advanced civil and military technologies into robust, single-service and joint information management environments. It optimises the operational effectiveness of command & control and platforms within the digitized battlespace, providing flexible architectures to support fast decision-making.

About eSpatial:

eSpatial is an innovative software company, which is leading the field in the development of next-generation Geospatial technology. The company provides compelling spatial infrastructure to Government, Defence and Utility organisations.

Established in 1997, the company has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and operates subsidiary companies in the USA and the UK.

About iSMARTv Suite:

iSMARTv Suite is an advanced network-centric spatial application development and deployment environment from eSpatial. iSMARTv's unique open standards component infrastructure allows spatial intelligence to be easily embedded into operational systems. The iSMARTv architecture is optimised for high performance processing and most efficient use of bandwidth, allowing its deployment to any device, anywhere.