FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 30, 2006
For more information contact:
Vice
President, Sales
Overwatch
Systems –
jack.connors@overwatch.com
781-937-9800
OVERWATCH SYSTEMS ACQUIRES ALL-SOURCE IMAGING
Founded in 1998, ASIS is the leading
manufacturer of cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions that allow image
analysts to fully integrate film-based imagery archives into today’s softcopy
production environment using an automated process. The ASIS-developed Zoom 500 Digital series of
products can quickly transform a traditional light table stereoscope into a
full multi-source digital image exploitation system. The ASIS ZoomDigital™ and FilmDeskPro™
software products can complete the transformation of a stereoscope into a
completely self-contained multi-source image analyst workstation, fully capable
of exploiting maps, digital imagery and GIS data. ASIS software products and integration
services provide full-featured, PC-based, multi-source imagery production
systems that can pull from a variety of hard and softcopy sources in order to
create and disseminate intelligence products.
ASIS is a strategic extension of the
current Overwatch Systems product offerings. Overwatch Systems consists of the
combined resources of six companies – Austin Info Systems, Federal IT,
ITSpatial, Paragon Imaging, Sensor Systems, and Visual Learning Systems – to
provide a suite of integrated geospatial and intelligence fusion software tools
for the defense/intelligence community.
This toolset, known as the Overwatch Intelligence Center (OIC), focuses
on providing situational awareness by enabling analysts to generate relevant,
actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first
responder and decision maker. The OIC will contribute to transforming the
Intelligence Community with low-cost collaboration tools. The addition of ASIS to the OIC family will
enhance analysts’ productivity by streamlining access to film-based archives of
geospatial information.
The
senior management of ASIS has chosen to use a portion of its transaction
proceeds to invest back into Overwatch Systems and will continue to manage the
company. ASIS will report to Kirk Brown, President of Overwatch Geospatial
Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, based in
“All-Source
Imaging Systems fills a strategic void in today’s workflow environment. Historically, it has been cost prohibitive to
digitize large archives of film-based imagery.
Without a cost-effective solution, there was a real danger this rich
source of information would never make it into a softcopy environment and
become irrevocably lost. With ASIS
products and services we can offer this capability on an as-needed basis, which
saves our customers money. ASIS products
and services are a natural fit with Overwatch Geospatial Operations, extending
the integration of both our ELT and RemoteView product series to hardcopy now
as well as softcopy,” said Brown. “We are excited to welcome ASIS to the
Overwatch team. ASIS has many important
and established customers not only in the US Defense and Intelligence
Communities, but across Europe and
Phil Wood, the
principal shareholders of ASIS said at the time of the closing, “We’re very
pleased to become part of the Overwatch team. We are excited to play a
strategic role in extending the reach of Overwatch solutions beyond the
softcopy sources of NTM and other sources serving the warfighter into the world
of automated capture of hardcopy film.”
About Overwatch Systems
Headquartered
in
About Overwatch Geospatial Operations
Overwatch
Geospatial Operations, consisting of the combined resources of Sensor Systems,
Paragon Imaging, Visual Learning Systems and All-Source Imaging is located in
About Overwatch
Systems-Boston Operations
Located in the
northern