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Great-Circle Technologies, Inc.
Suite 210
Chantilly VA 20151
Fax 703-***-****
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Brent Bursey
Geospatial Intelligence SME
President/CEO
Great-Circle Technologies, Inc.
Clearance: TS/SCI with full-scope lifestyle polygraph
Summary Qualifications: Mr. Bursey has more than 20 years of professional experience as a
geospatial subject matter expert (SME). Throughout his career, Mr. Bursey has worked as a GIS
consultant, senior software/systems engineer, technical lead for pure and applied R&D/deployed
system components, senior GIS systems architect, technical/project/program/capture manager,
multi-INT geospatial intelligence SME, and is currently the founder/president of a small
geospatial intelligence professional services and software product business. His geospatial
experience has spanned multiple markets, including environmental science,
transportation/navigation, state & local governments, civilian agencies, defense & intelligence,
and R&D. He has extensive experience working with full systems/software lifecycles, spanning
from program/product/service conceptualization to requirements definition/validation
(authoritative responsibilities on Industry-standards, DoD, IC, and International working groups)
to component/system design to software development and engineering management to
system/software/process integration, configuration management, testing, documentation,
packaging, distribution, and maintenance. Mr. Bursey is the President, Founder, and CEO of
Great-Circle Technologies, Inc. (GCT), a highly focused geospatial firm specializing in the
design, development, and deployment of advanced geospatial intelligence systems and solutions.
Mr. Bursey s experiences include:
Chief Geospatial Architect for the AMC (formerly GAC)
One of three authors of the Enterprise Geospatial Intelligence Architecture (EGIA)
Contributing member of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
Capture/Program Manager for NGA-Source Multi-Source (Multi-INT) Pilot Program
Geospatial SME supporting NGA-POR
Geospatial/Multi-INT SME, NGA-P technical representative to IC-MAP program
Geospatial/Multi-INT SME, NGA-PORT Upstream Processing Working Group
Sr. GIS Architect, NGA Commercial Joint Mapping ToolKit (C/JMTK) program
Technical Capture Manager, NGA C/JMTK program
Sr. GIS Architect/Technical Manager, OSD BRAC Information System (BIS) program
Geospatial Systems Architect, (Army & Air Force) Joint Terrain Analysis Tools (JTAT)
Capture/Program Manager, Area Limitation Mission Application Segment (AL-MAS)
Project Manager, DARPA ISO Dynamic Multi-user Information Fusion (DMIF) program
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Project Manager, DARPA ISO Tactical Terrain Analyzer (TTA) program
Technical Manager/System Architect, NIMA Joint Mapping ToolKit (JMTK) program
Technical Manager/System Architect,
o USMC AAAV Segment
o ECDIS Navigation Segment
o SPAWAR/NAVSEA/Coast Guard NAVSSI Segment
o UB/JMCIS ECDIS Navigation Segment
Technical Manager, DMA Electronic Charting Display Information System (ECDIS)
Technical Rep. for US Navy/Coast Guard/USMC at ISO IEC working group 7 (ECDIS)
Technical Rep. for DMA/US Navy/Coast Guard/USMC at DISA JMTK working groups
Sr. Systems Engineer, DISA DII COE (OS kernels, IR&TS, segmentation, JMTK)
Sr. Software Engineer, mapping, charting, geodesy and imagery (MCG&I) segments:
o DISA Global Command and Control System (GCCS) deployed C4I-SR system
o US Navy SPAWAR Unified Build (UB) deployed C4I-SR system
o Coast Guard Vessel Traffic System (VTS) deployed C3 system
Software Engineer, IA/CT DOT Mobile Accident Reporting System (MARS)
GIS Consultant, various commercial clients and civilian agencies (Federal, state, local)
Education:
The Pennsylvania State University
Geography: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Cartography, Remote Sensing, B.S.: 1988
Thesis paper: Remote Sensing: Applied to Marine Environments
Thesis paper: Analysis of the Economic Impact of the Protozoan MSX on the
Chesapeake Bay Fishing Industry
Thesis paper: Spatial Structural Analysis of the Mapping Analysis Package (MAP)
Research Project: Digital Elevation Model (DEM) display package for PC-AT Vectrix card,
written in MS-FORTRAN
Research Project: ERDAS Imagine analysis of a Virginia salt marsh (Spartina patens,
Spartina alternaflora) using scanned color and near-IR space shuttle
photographs
Research Project: Creating color separates on a gray-scale HP-Scanjet scanner using
inexpensive, spectrally sensitive filters
Research Project: Summer field work (1985-1991) to extract 90cm and 10m soil cores from
various Virginia Spartina salt marches, in support of Soil Salinity Levels
in a Virginia March, unpublished
Software/Language/Hardware Experience:
Software:
C/JMTK, JMTK SocetSet SAS: GMAP
ArcGIS, Arc/INFO ArcPlot, Geomatica, Spans World Projection Package
ArcEdit, GRID, TIN, Network OGC (WMS, WFS/-TWMC, WCS, WDBII
ESRI Fortran libraries CSW) Mapping Analysis Package
ArcView (most extensions) OSSIM Toolkit General Cartographic
ArcIMS Map Info Transformation Package
SDE, Oracle10 g Spatial MOSS, GRASS iSMART
Imagine Professional (Vector, Atlas Pro, MapMaker IONIC Red Spider
NITF, VirtualGIS, AutoCAD
Developer s Toolkit) Surface II, Surfer, DI3000
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Languages:
ANSI C, C++ DCE, RPC Clipper
Java2, JAI, J2EE, JDO UNIX shells (C, Bourne, Korn, FORTRAN 77
Visual Basic 6, VBA Bash) HPGL
ADO, SQL regular expressions PostScript
.NET SAS Hypertalk
HTML, XML, GML, SOAP TSO CLIST nroff/troff
XSLT, WSDL, web services ESRI (AML, Avenue, ArcObjects) X-Windows (X11 XLib, Toolkit,
CORBA (Orbix, Visigenics) ERDAS (EML, SML) Motif)
Hardware/OS:
SUN Ultra and SparcStation Solaris, SUN OS PC and Macintosh
HP HPUX DOS
IBM RS6000 AIX Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000
DG Aviion DGUX NT 4.0, XP
IBM 3090 TSO MVS Mac OS
DEC VAX and Micro VAX VM
Beowulf clusters RedHat Linux
Professional Experience Summary:
President/Multi-INT Geospatial Intelligence SME/Enterprise GI. Architect, Great-
Circle Technologies, Inc., (GCT) Chantilly, VA, February, 2000-Present
Mr. Bursey has successfully grown GCT from a small geospatial consulting business into a
rapidly growing professional services business and a geospatial intelligence COTS product
developer/integrator/VAR for autonomous geospatial intelligence workflow (AGIW) processing
functionality executing within traditional client-server architectures and rapidly evolving
enterprise geospatial intelligence service oriented architectures (EGI-SOA) deployed on
workstations, Beowulf/blade clusters and/or grid computing systems.
Mr. Bursey provides technical and/or programmatic support to the following efforts:
Multi-INT Enterprise Geospatial Intelligence Architect, NGA-PT. Tailored the GCT
proven MERLIN Solutions Framework to develop and deploy an enterprise geospatial
intelligence service oriented architecture (EGI-SOA) in support of a tactical counter
terrorism (CT) mission
GCT Capture Manager and Program Director for NGA SMARTS ID/IQ contract under
BAE Systems
Chief Geospatial Technologist, OTI Analytic Methods Center (AMC) under GRAAMI.
In this role, he has worked closely with the customer and other contract team members to
develop a comprehensive geospatial intelligence vision, spanning the customer s
enterprise and beyond to the entire geospatial community. In addition to providing a
pragmatic vision, he has also successfully scoped and managed the implementation of
several aspects of this vision, including a unique COTS-based commercial imagery
autonomous orthorectification workflow called AutoOrtho. Based on the success of this
workflow, the customer has asked him to continue thinking out of the box to and describe
additional autonomous geospatial intelligence workflows (AGIW), including autonomous
mosaicing, autonomous terrain extraction, and autonomous feature extraction
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Multi-INT Geospatial Intelligence SME leading OTI GRAAMI Geospatial Technology
5-year Roadmap task to provide the Agency with a comprehensive geospatial technology
vision implementing next generation enterprise level geospatial tools and services across
all domains, utilizing loosely coupled, Industry standards-based systems architecture
standards (OGC, OASIS, XML, SOAP, web services), and tailored COTS. This effort
has resulted in the creation of the Enterprise Geospatial Intelligence Architecture
(EGIA), which is being embraced by a number of organizations, including both the GAC
and CIO
Geospatial Intelligence SME responsible for the creation of the Commercial AutoOrtho
workflow under GRAAMI. This workflow provides fully autonomous orthorectification
workflow for commercial satellite imagery, utilizing DTED (1, 2, SRTM) and CIB (1, 5,
10) for control
Multi-INT Geospatial Intelligence SME responsible for conceptualizing and codifying
implementation strategies for developing autonomous geospatial intelligence workflows
(AGIW) processing system running on variably sized Beowulf (Linux) multi-node
clusters, supporting autonomous geospatial product discovery, orthorectification,
seamless/cloud-free mosaicing, and rule-based (Bayesian) feature extraction/change
detection workflows for commercial, NTM, and airborne imagery
Program Manager for a GCT team of INT-specific Intelligence SMEs supporting the
Multi-Source Pilot (MSP) program at NGA-Source to demonstrate the value of multi-
INT/multi-Source data to NGA-P (Production & Analysis) imagery analysts (IAs) and
geospatial analysts (GAs). This pilot couples IAs and GAs with Intelligence SMEs to
pragmatically demonstrate how multi-INT data can add value to geospatial intelligence
analysis and products being developed on the production floor
Supervising task-specific GA support to the Department of Homeland Security
Multi-INT Geospatial Intelligence SME supporting the NGA-P liason to the Intelligence
Community Multi-INT Acquisition Program (IC-MAP). Duties include assisting NGA-P
in capturing and codifying the analyst s perspective, from NGA IAs, GAs, regional
analysts (RAs), and all source analysts, and reflecting this perspective as requirements to
the IC-MAP community, the IMINT IC-MAP integrator, the NGA GeoScout Program
(Lockheed-Martin), NGA-A (Acquisition) and NGA I (Innovision), as well as NGA-P
corporate management
Multi-INT Geospatial Intelligence SME supporting the NGA PORT working group on
Upstream and Full-stream processing. Duties include reflecting the NGA-P analyst s
perspective to on-going transition programs within NGA-A and NGA I, as well as the
broader IMINT community
Designed and built the GCT IRaD product JMV-IT (JMTK-Visualization Integrator s
Toolkit). The JMV-IT is a collection of system integration methodologies and software
for reverse engineering and documenting the actual API contents of a specified ICSF
build (Windows, HPUX, Solaris). ICSF represents the DISA Integrated Command,
Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) System Framework (ICSF)
for C4I systems. The JMV-IT dynamically creates a stub framework for every library
present within the specified build, providing a robust basis for inserting non-invasive
metrics into an existing software build and/or providing the basis for developing a
translation layer for any build API (both public and private), without requiring access to
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source code, only header files and the corresponding dynamically-linked libraries (DLLs)
or UNIX shared libraries (.so)
Senior GIS Architect for the NGA Commercial Joint Mapping ToolKit (C/JMTK)
program under Northrop-Grumman/TASC. The C/JMTK program is an 11-year, $73M
program awarded in June 2002 to provide ESRI COTS to the DISA DII COE community
as a replacement for the GOTS JMTK functionality already deployed world-wide in DII
COE C4I-SR systems, such as GCCS, GCCS-M, GCCS-I3, GCSS, CTIS
Technical Manager/Senior GIS Architect for the OSD Base Realignment and Closure
(BRAC) Information System (BIS) program under UNISYS. The BIS program was a
four-year, $43M program to provide a centralized OSD-managed DoD-wide, worldwide
enterprise GIS system to manage physical assets associated with Base Realignment and
Closure (BRAC) activities. This program was canceled due to the tragic events of 9/11
Senior GIS Architect for the Joint Terrain Analysis Tools (JTAT) program for the Army
Corps of Engineering (ACE), Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC),
Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), and the Air Force Electronic Systems Command
(ESC). The JTAT program is focused on developing an application framework for
implementing tactical decision aids (TDAs) focused on the prosecution of time-critical-
targets (TCTs) and time-sensitive-targets (TSTs). This joint program integrates the best
GOTS TDA algorithms with a COTS infrastructure leveraging ArcView, ArcIMS, SDE,
Oracle, Imagine, and Java. This multi-INT geospatial intelligence program successfully
integrates IRINT, ELINT, SIGINT, OSINT and IMINT intelligence products with DIA
derived intelligence domain models and a Bayesian modeled terrain suitability geospatial
context
Program Manager/Senior Systems Engineer/Senior Software Engineer, Pacific-
Sierra Research Corporation, Arlington, VA, 1997-2000
Capture manager for the Area Limitation Mission Application Segment program (now
known as JTAT), $9.5 million, three-year effort to develop a terrain delimitation and
movement projection system for TCTs and TSTs
Program Manager and technical lead for the JTAT program, managing a PSR staff of 14,
along with two subcontractors: ESRI and Lockheed-Martin Mission System (LMMS),
Denver. Responsible for capturing a $1 million FY00 plus-up to the JTAT program
Project Manager for the DARPA ISO Dynamic Multi-user Information Fusion (DMIF)
program, responsible for managing the development of a DII COE based test and
transition environment (T&TE) for discretized intelligence fusion engines. The DMIF
program was focused upon the dynamic creation and tailoring of all source intelligence
product creation from a distributed system architecture leveraging a collaborative team of
analysts. DMIF incorporated IMINT, IRINT, ELINT, SIGINT, MASINT, GEOINT
intelligence products with geospatial analysis and context to developed the tailored
geospatial intelligence products. The DMIF T&TE provided a fully distributed Java
Bean/COBRA/DCE-based drag-and-drop interface for configuring information fusion
test scenarios by defining test threads comprised of segmented USMTF test message sets,
fusion engines, web-based product finishers, and performance and effectiveness metrics
(MOPs and MOEs). The T&TE infrastructure was largely based upon the Army All
Source Analysis System (ASAS) with the addition of an Informix Dynamic Data Server,
an object-relation hybrid database, and the development of a DMIF-specific schema.
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Also responsible for managing the sole subcontractor in this effort, LMMS, as well as
coordination with the three other prime contractors in this program
Project Manager for the Tactical Terrain Analyzer (TTA) program, responsible for the
productization, DII COE segmentation, and transition of this DARPA ISO seeded R&D
program to the Army ASAS, Air Force Theater Battle Management Core System
(TBMCS), and DISA/DARPA JPO Global Command and Control System (GCCS)
programs. TTA is a terrain based spatial analysis engine designed to determine high
value target suitability for the development of intelligence preparation of the battlefield
(IPB) products. The extensive knowledge based target domain models support both
mission order of battle (MOB) and ground order of battle (GOB) targets operating in a
variety of activities. The IPB output products of TTA are formatted in NITF 2.0 and are
generally used as the GIS modeled input to probabilistic (Bayesian) fusion engines
Supported the Air Force 497th Intelligence Group in an assessment of JMTK for TBMCS
Supported various mapping, charting, geodesy, and imagery (MCG&I) related projects
designing customized spatial algorithms implemented within the PSR MCG&I object
oriented toolkit, an imake based integrated development environment and set of custom
libraries, which support MCG&I spatial analysis and visualization
Responsible for recruitment and supervision of 15 software engineers, system engineers,
and military domain analysts, as well as providing technical oversight for the programs
that these staff members were supporting
Engineering Supervisor/Senior Software Engineer, INRI, Reston, VA, 1995-1997
Responsible for recruitment and supervision of 22 software/system engineers, as well as
providing technical oversight for the MCG&I development team focused on JMTK and
electronic navigation (ECDIS) business opportunities with DMA/NGA, DISA, and the
Services
Technical lead for the visualization domain of the DMA/NGA JMTK program,
responsible for the design, development, and integration of joint DoD visualization
requirements into the JMTK baseline, which was largely based on the INRI developed
Navy command and control system: Unified Build (UB). The JMTK tools provided low-
level functionality for reading and dynamically displaying all DMA/NGA products and
editions (ADRG, WVS, WVS+, WMM, DTED, DBDB, DCW, VPF [VMap; UVMap;
VITD], RPF [CIB; CADRG], SLF, S57), DIGEST, FACC, all USGS 1395 map
projections, every validated MADTRANS coordinate conversion and datum translation
API, and tactical tracks supplied by a tactical message systems (USMTF, OTH-GOLD,
TADIL-A, TADIL-B and TADIL-J formats) and MIL-STD2525. Additionally, was the
technical representative for the Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps to the DMA/NGA DII
JMTK working group, the DII JMTK design/engineering working group, and the DII
JMTK objective architecture working group
Technical lead for the various Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps ECDIS systems and
responsible for the design and development of various ECDIS segments for the UB
system. This work focused on solving R&D development issues related to ship-centered
displays, heads-up displays, integrated vector and raster products configured to support
ECDIS specifications, and the development of a robust spherical and elliptical based set
of map projections. Participated in the International Electro-technical Committee (IEC),
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TC80, working group 7 (ECDIS) meetings chartered by the IHO and the IMO to develop
a set of testing standards for the IHO ECDIS specification
Technical lead for SPAWAR/NAVSEA/Coast Guard Navigation System Sensor Interface
(NAVSSI) Display Control Subsystem for the ECDIS Navigation System on the UB
Joint Military command Information System (JMCIS)
Technical lead for DMA Joint Interoperability Warrior Demonstration (JWID) 95
Global GIS (GGIS) prototype
GIS Manager/Software Engineer/Systems Analyst, American Management
Systems, Inc. (AMS), Fairfax, VA, 1989-1995
Designed/developed a C++ PCMCIA GPS interface for gathering differentially-corrected
accident locations for a pen-based Mobile Accident Reporting system (MARS) for the
Iowa DOT, the Connecticut DOT, and the Des Moines Police Department
Designed, developed, and implemented an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
Region 4 database access, analysis, and display methodology, leveraging Arc/Info,
ArcView, and Imagine within a customized set of client server applications
communication between EPA HQ, EPA RTP data warehouse, and Region 4 via TCP-IP
protocols on Apple Macintoshes, IBM PCs, Data General Aviion UNIX workstations,
DEC MicroVAX mini-workstations, and IBM 3090 mainframes via JCL submitted to the
internal reader via FTP scripts
Designed/implemented a multi-platform/operating system imake-based development
environment
Designed the porting of a large legacy Department of Education Model 204 database to
Oracle
Designed a variety UNIX client-server networks (Token-Ring/Ethernet) supporting
multiple LAN, CAN, and WAN services, ranging from simple bulletin board systems to
complex GIS database systems
Designed six different geocoding algorithms to evaluate the locational accuracy of EPA
monitored facilities as a bi-variate function of locational accuracy and execution cost
Designed a highly compact, octtree-based global spatial indexing scheme and a series of
spatial algorithms based on this code to support spatial queries, proximal queries, and
non-contiguous feature queries of geographic data stored in a variety of RDBMs for a
venture capital initiative
Participated in the design and development of an Emergency Response E911 system for
Westchester County, PA. Responsible for the design of a topological database in Clipper
to maintain county level geography
Participated in the design and evaluation of the EPA-wide GIS systems and data
warehousing infrastructure RFP and award, resulting in the procurement and integration
of Arc/Info with several huge environmental DBMSs
Designed a nearest neighbor/farthest neighbor (convex hull) extension to Arc/INFO
Developed AML code for the Oregon Clean Water Strategy program
Auto-Cartographic Technician/Systems Analyst, Deasy Geographics Lab PSU,
University Park, PA, 1988-1989
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Developed a procedure to model the spatial diffusion of AIDs in Ohio, producing an
aNGAted graphic design to communicate model results to an audience ranging from
school children to health care professionals, in support of research by Dr. Peter J. Gould
Responsible for producing camera ready graphics and maps for journal publication,
maintaining the lab s microcomputers and peripherals, and writing FORTRAN utilities
(2) Cartographic Technician Internships, Penn State University, University Park,
PA, 1987-1988
Taught first year cartography students basic map production techniques
Responsible for producing camera ready graphics and maps for journal publication,
maintaining the Deasy Geographics Lab microcomputers and peripherals, and writing
FORTRAN utilities
Professional/Technical Memberships:
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
Computer Magazine
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IT Professional Magazine
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Design & Test of Computers Magazine
IEEE Member Digital Library
British Cartographic Society
The Cartographic Journal
International Institute for Aerospace survey and Earth Sciences (ITC)
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
American Mathematics Association
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