How Governments Anticipate Operational Blind Spots with GIS

Agency-wide, Defense Logistics Agency employees individually maintained records of data points in unsynchronized and decentralized information systems. Naturally, the data became siloed, making sharing and leveraging the information a huge challenge. To better organize, visualize and manage its vast array of assets, the DLA recently began integrating geographic information systems, better known as GIS, into its operations, tapping the tool to consolidate thousands of records into a single, centralized location, that can be accessed by employees at any time, and greatly improving workflow and logistics management.