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GeoInfo, S.A., a Panamanian based international distributor for ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA.), has signed a four-year GIS and Digital Mapping contract with the U.S. Army South and the Department of the Army. The sales initiative was led by Mr. Richard LeFrancois, International Sales Manager for GeoInfo, S.A. This four-year contract focuses on the development of a GIS digital base map of over twenty U.S. governments-controlled bases and town sites within the Panama Canal area. The contract requires the integration of base operations and facilities management digital databases with the GIS base map of the local and regional area for implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaty of 1977.
The system will directly support the activities of the Deputy Chief of Staff Information Management, the Directorate of Housing and Engineering, the 106th Signal Brigade, the Treaty Implementation Office and the Provost Marshall. GeoInfo will assist each of these organizations to develop GIS work groups in support of an on-going GIS initiative. The integrated GIS will serve as a vehicle for transferring decades of management data to the government of the Republic of Panama. The bases and facilities will be transferred within the next six years to Panama as required by the treaty.
