27 Oct 09. EADS Defence & Security (DS) and ESRI Deutschland GmbH have signed a new cooperation contract to combine their expertise in the area of military situational awareness capabilities and geographical data processing. Their objective is to develop an OEM product (SitGIS) and an
extension product (Copex Extension), which will be marketed together on a national and an international scale. EADS Defence & Security is the manufacturer and marketer of the Geogrid software family, containing a software product known as ‘Geogrid-SitView/-COPEx’ which serves to generate and process military and security-relevant situations against a geographical background, for example, for all German Army Command and Control Information Systems. ESRI Inc. is the manufacturer of the ArcGISTM software technology The ArcGIS technology consists of individual software components (ArcObjects) which can be grouped into set products, or can be individually used within other applications (also from different manufacturers). The well known ArcGIS products ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo are examples of these geoinformation products.