The Marine Chart Division (MCD) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has embarked on an ambitious new deployment of GIS technology to create the next generation of its Nautical Chart System (NCS II). MCD has used GIS for many years to improve workflows and data management but wanted a commercial off-the-shelf enterprise-wide system for NCS II to gain efficiencies and streamline data management and product generation. With the new system, NOAA MCD continues to be the leader in hydrographic information management.

See "NOAA Modernizes Nautical Chart Production."