The PlugFest Plus Platform

This year’s PlugFest Plus leverages a continuously provided platform for:

        • Participants to remotely develop, test, and demonstrate their capabilities
        • Operators to use the new capabilities in a representative environment
        • Evaluators to have complete understanding of the platform on which testing occurs

The common environment was created in Hanscom milCloud (HmC) and is identical for all participants. The HmC resource provides an industry standard, x86 cloud resource for development and test activities.

The environment provides complete control of the “Government Furnished Equipment”, including custom templates, image files and data. Participants can deploy environments on demand, at their convenience (with a push of a button) and not worry about breaking anything or performing complex installation instructions.  Each participant has as many working integrated GEOINT Workflow Enhancement (GWE) environments as needed that do the following in their private cloudspace:

        • Deploys and configures UnicornDB, SOCET GXP v4.1, and GDES v0.12.0 (detailed asset list below)
        • Joins a domain that includes a SOCET GXP license server and a shared drive
        • Adds and configures unique users for each team
        • Mounts the shared image server with appropriate permissions for each team

Every time the deployment is launched it is automatically built in the exact same way for each participant. If participants need to include a new or updated piece of software (e.g., different version of Firefox or JDK) or make any configuration updates they change that part of the “recipe" and redeploy immediately. Users can also deploy multiple copies in parallel, up to their capacity limit in the cloudspace. People with the appropriate permissions can remotely access this environment. Specifics of the on-demand environment include:

        • SOCET GXP Client
                • Windows Server R2 2008
                • Firefox 30
                • Notepad Plus Plus
                • 7-Zip
                • Adobe Acrobat Reader
                • Oracle JDK for Windows
                • SOCET GXP 4.1
                        • PostgreSQL
                        • Video Codecs
                        • Dev Kit
                        • GWE Configuration
        • SOCET license server
        • Custom Image Templates
        • OBC NITF Imagery Share
        • Writeable workspace
        • SOCET license server
        • Unicorn Database
        • GDES Client
                • Firefox 30
                • Notepad Plus Plus
                • 7-Zip
                • Adobe Acrobat Reader
                • Oracle JDK for Windows
                • Nitro NITF for Windows
                • pGina for Windows
                • DDF for Windows
                • GDES