GEOINT 2025 | Progress Federal

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial speaks with Billy Sokol and Brent Perry of Progress Federal during the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Brent, with a background in full stack engineering and data analytics for defense and IC customers, highlights geospatial as one of the top ways to visualize intelligence. They introduce Progress Federal, a business unit within Progress Software that includes the capabilities of the acquired company MarkLogic. They explain that MarkLogic's history spans diverse industries and government, focusing on a multi-modal database that can aggregate data from multiple systems, regardless of format. This database is designed to operate at immense scale and also to scale down to a laptop for use in hostile environments with denied, delayed, intermittent, or latent communications. They emphasize the importance of being agile due to the rapid rate of change in user expectations and technology in the market.

Highlights

• Progress Federal is a business unit of Progress Software that includes the capabilities of Mark Logic, a company focused on data management since the early 2000s.

• Mark Logic has a history supporting geospatial requirements in government, oil/gas, manufacturing, and healthcare.

• They offer a multi-modal database designed to aggregate and unify data from diverse systems and formats at immense scale.

• Their technology can scale down to a laptop for use in hostile environments with unreliable communications (D-DIL).

• The approach helps put disparate geospatial and related data into context for analysts and operators.

• They emphasize the need for agility to keep pace with the rapid changes in technology and user expectations.