GTK, NERVE and CORTEX: A Disconnected Route Assessment

Illustrative case study covering local GEOINT processing, source records and intelligence reporting with GTK, NERVE and CORTEX.

Illustrative case study. This fictional route-assessment task describes a proposed workflow, not a customer deployment or a measured result.

A crossing needs checking

After heavy rain, an analysis team is asked to assess a crossing on a planned access route. It has fresh imagery, terrain data, patrol notes and a maintenance register. The enterprise connection is unavailable. An earlier report describes the crossing as serviceable, but it predates the weather.

The team needs to inspect the recent collection, find the relevant ground reports and record its assessment for review. The products serve different parts of that work.

GTK processes the geospatial collection

GTK 2.0 ingests imagery, terrain, vector and sensor material locally. Rapid multi-threaded ingest, metadata cataloguing, caching and geospatial indexing help the team work through the collection without continuous enterprise connectivity. Disconnected operation is available now.

The operator checks acquisition dates, coverage and processing status. The analyst compares the new imagery with the earlier collection and records the visible changes around the crossing. Ground reports are still needed to assess its condition.

GTK 2.0 product details

GTK technical and product information at gtk.aic.io

NERVE brings the reports into search

The patrol notes and maintenance register contain details that the imagery cannot supply. NERVE preserves accepted originals, transforms supported material into searchable records and retains source locators and processing history. The analyst can inspect a relevant passage or register entry and return to the file it came from.

One patrol note reports damage. The maintenance register records an earlier repair. Their dates and acquisition context matter. The records remain separate, and access restrictions apply to discovery as well as retrieval.

NERVE intelligence data fabric product details

NERVE source preservation and search at nerve.aic.io

CORTEX holds the assessment and review

In CORTEX, the analyst works against the route-assessment requirement, records the supporting evidence and prepares the report. Recent observations, older reporting and the analyst’s judgement can be inspected separately. The reviewer checks the dates and references before approving release.

The report identifies the apparent damage and the limits of the available evidence. A request for a ground inspection addresses the remaining uncertainty. Recipients receive the approved product according to their permissions and the release policy.

CORTEX intelligence lifecycle product details

CORTEX requirements, analysis and reporting at cortex.aic.io

Disconnected deployment and cryptography

GTK is secure by design. Disconnected operation, rapid multi-threaded ingest and PQC integration are live capabilities. ML-KEM provides key encapsulation and ML-DSA provides digital signatures, alongside double AES encryption. The deployment must also specify key management, identity, storage and transfer controls.

For this proposed workflow, AIC and the customer would confirm supported formats, product interfaces and the handling rules for exchanged records. No accreditation or preconfigured end-to-end integration is implied by the scenario.

GTK deployment and encryption information

Acceptance checks

Use a representative collection on the intended hardware with the enterprise connection disabled. Record ingest times and rejected files. Check source dates and metadata after processing. Follow report references back to the originals. Test discovery with a user denied access to one source, then inspect the contents of the released report.

Products and next steps

An evaluation needs your data types, expected volumes, hardware limits and reporting requirement. AIC can use those details to agree the product configuration, exchange interfaces and acceptance checks.

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