APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE STANDARDS FOR IMAGERY SYSTEMS WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Contact Mr. Ron Burns. The Department of Defense, Central Imagery Office (CIO), will be developing and approving standards related to Application Program Interfaces (API's). Systems that process, disseminate, catalog, request, and exploit images within the United States Imagery System (USIS) will meet these API's at some point in the next six years. These API's will be specified in Interface Definition Language and included in the standards documents related to the USIS. As a first step toward a set of comprehensive interface specifications, the CIO will lead an effort to define the framework for the API development. The existing Image Access Working Group, dedicated to the development of interfaces for the storage and retrieval of images, will expand the scope of its mission and its membership. On 25 October 1995 the CIO will host the first meeting of this expanded group, the Common Imagery Interoperability Working Group. This working group will manage the technical development of the API specifications for the USIS. The integration of commercial and government software products into government developed systems will be a particular focus of this group. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend the meeting, starting at 8:30 AM in Reston, Virginia. Please contact Mr. Ron Burns, in the Standards Branch of the CIO, at 703-275-5649, for more information on participating in the working group and attending the October meeting. For more information on Imagery Standards see the Imagery Standards Management Committee's home page on the Internet at http://www.itsi.disa.mil/ismc.

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