MIL-STD-2301A
FOREWORD
(DOD).
1. This standard is approved for use by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense
2. The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is the standard for formatting digital imagery and imagery-related products and exchanging them among the DOD, other members of the Intelligence Community (IC), as defined by Executive Order 12333, and other departments and agencies of the United States Government
3. The NITFS Technical Board (NTB) developed this standard based upon currently available technical information.
4. The DOD and other IC members are committed to interoperability of systems used for formatting, transmitting, receiving, and processing imagery and imagery-related information. This standard describes a Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) implementation and establishes its application within the NITFS.
5. As depicted on the cover, MIL-STD-2301A will supersede MIL-STD-2301, Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) Implementation Standard for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard, 18 June 1993, on 1 October 1998. The 1 October 1998 supersession date coincides with the date on which MIL-STD-2500B, National Imagery Transmission Format Version 2.1 for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard, 22
August 1997 will supersede MIL-STD-2500A, National Imagery Transmission Format (Version 2.0) for the
National Imagery Transmission Format Standard, 12 October 1994.
6. Beneficial comments (recommendations, additions, deletions) and any pertinent data which may be of use in improving this document should be addressed to National Imagery and Mapping Agency, NIMA/SES,
12310 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20191-3449, Attention: NTB Chair, by using the Standardization
Document Improvement Proposal (DD Form 1426) appearing at the end of this document or by letter.
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