and up to $2.5 billion over a three- to five-year period—reasonable in terms of market rates, but entirely out of the reach of DIMOC’s budget.


In the search for a solution to the back- log, Julia Hickey, the strategic archivist for DIMOC and DMA, came across a 2008 contract between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and Ancestry.com that enabled Ancestry.com to use material from NARA in exchange for archiving and cataloging the information. Te multiyear, no-cost contract permits Ancestry.com to charge a fee for access to certain federal records in exchange for digitizing, categorizing and storing those records.


Hickey presented this model to


DIMOC’s leadership. Instead of a more traditional contract with a company digitizing the images and DIMOC hosting the vast trove—neither of which DIMOC could afford to do—the orga- nization would look for a company that would not just digitize the work, but host it as well. “We don’t have $25 mil- lion, much less $2.5 billion” to digitize and host DIMOC’s imagery, currently estimated at up to 13-15 petabytes’ worth, Edrington said. “Lack of funds is the mother of invention.”


After working the idea through DMA’s general counsel, the contracting office and other DOD legal channels, DIMOC sponsored two industry days to gauge interest and to validate its expectations of cost and viability. Te result was a five-year, $5 million contract awarded to T3Media Inc. in August 2013 to digi- tize, store and provide access to DOD’s archive of visual information. T3Media is an imagery company based in Denver, CO, that, according to its website, “offers cloud-based storage, access and licens- ing for enterprise-scale video libraries.”


LIGHTNING STRIKE


U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment fire M777A2 Lightweight Howitzers dur- ing combined arms exercise Steel Knight on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, CA, Dec. 11, 2012. All of the images that DIMOC receives must be tagged with metadata, such as unit name and type of weapon system, that will help make them discoverable in a public search. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by LCpl Jason Morrison)


NIGHT FLIGHT


A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer takes off toward the Las Vegas Strip during exercise Green Flag at Nellis AFB, NV, Oct. 30, 2012. The aircraft is assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing at Dyess AFB, TX. Photos such as this represent the intersection of military and civilian content in DIMOC’s huge collection of imagery. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis)


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CONTRACTING


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