Geospatial Engineering for Defense, Intelligence, and Public Safety

Open-standards systems built for real operational environments.

NGS builds and supports secure geospatial systems for defense, intelligence, and public safety — from enterprise GIS to the tactical edge. We engineer on open standards, so agencies get interoperable systems they can extend and support long-term.

Organizations We Serve

Trusted across defense, intelligence, and industry.

CoreSpatial
CoreSpatial

A scalable platform for enterprise GIS.

CoreSpatial is a comprehensive geospatial analytics platform developed to help organizations unlock the full value of location data. Integrating high-resolution mapping, spatial analysis, and enterprise data sources, it provides powerful tools for visualization, modeling, and decision support across complex operational environments.

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New Module · CoreSpatial 3D

Now available: streaming 3D, self-hosted.

CoreSpatial 3D is the newest module in the CoreSpatial platform, bringing a full 3D web viewer to CoreSpatial Portal through a self-hosted deployment of Cesium ion. Global terrain, imagery, and buildings come packaged for offline use, and photorealistic 3D Tiles built from your own data run entirely on your infrastructure.

Photorealistic 3D view of Charleston's Rainbow Row in CoreSpatial 3D

3D imagery: Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, via Cesium ion

Amazon Web Services

Deploy CoreSpatial on AWS today.

CoreSpatial® is now available on AWS Marketplace, including a 30-day free trial. Not ready to deploy? Try the live demo first.

Tomorrow's Solutions Today

A leader in geospatial technology and services.

Based in Charleston, SC, NGS delivers comprehensive geospatial solutions tailored to the U.S. National Defense and Intelligence sectors, with a commitment to innovation, excellence, and a customer-focused approach.

About NGS

Our Mission

Through advanced tools and innovative methods, we deliver premier geospatial technology and services that enable our clients to achieve their goals with unmatched efficiency and effectiveness.

Our Vision

To be the foremost provider of geospatial solutions by consistently delivering innovative tools that enable our clients to accomplish more with fewer resources.

Insights

The NGS Geospatial Technology Blog.

Open Weights, Open Source, and Who Actually Owns Your Data

Open Weights, Open Source, and Who Actually Owns Your Data

Meta's new open-weight model release changes where enterprise data has to travel to get value out of AI. It's the same argument NGS has been making about open-source GIS for years, applied to a new layer of the stack.

Announcing NGS AI Advisory

Announcing NGS AI Advisory

NGS is launching AI Advisory, a new commercial practice that helps companies adopt AI safely: in their own systems, on their own data, with workflows their teams own.

Introducing CoreSpatial 3D: Self-Hosted Streaming 3D for the Mission

Introducing CoreSpatial 3D: Self-Hosted Streaming 3D for the Mission

CoreSpatial 3D adds streaming 3D to CoreSpatial Portal through a self-hosted deployment of Cesium ion. It brings global 3D content, 3D Tiles from your own data, and native 2D/3D integration, all on your own infrastructure.

CoreSpatial 2026-Q2 Release Announcement

CoreSpatial 2026-Q2 Release Announcement

NGS is pleased to announce the 2026.2 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps and Map Manager, with continued security hardening across the stack and a Portal 2026.2 release candidate in testing.

The Interoperability Problem at the Tactical Edge: Why It’s Still Unsolved

The Interoperability Problem at the Tactical Edge: Why It’s Still Unsolved

TAK is a powerful platform. But when your geospatial ecosystem doesn't speak the same language, critical data disappears exactly when it matters most.

CoreSpatial 2026-Q1 Release Announcement

CoreSpatial 2026-Q1 Release Announcement

CoreSpatial 2026 Q1 release including Server, Map Manager, and Portal, a significant Portal update combining multiple upstream MapStore2 releases.

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Partnership

NGS is a Cesium Certified Developer.

NGS is a certified Cesium Developer Organization. This partnership powers CoreSpatial 3D, a self-hosted deployment of Cesium's 3D geospatial platform, integrated into CoreSpatial for real-time 3D visualization and analytics on your own infrastructure.

New: AI advisory, built the way we build for defense.

Secure, vendor-neutral AI adoption for commercial teams, from the engineers behind CoreSpatial and mission systems for DHA, USSOCOM, and NGA.

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