Maintenance and Expansion of the Geographic Information System for Breast Cancer Studies on Long Island (LI GIS)

L-3 developed and maintained the National Cancer Institute’s Geographic Information System for Breast Cancer Studies on Long Island (LI GIS) to support the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (LIBCSP). Under NIH CIO-SP2i Task Order C-2314 – Maintenance and Expansion of the LI GIS, L 3 continued its partnership with the NCI by providing a wide range of services supporting and maintaining the LI GIS including: acquiring and maintaining datasets; performing technology evaluation and upgrades; performing maintenance and operations of the LI GIS IT infrastructure; help desk and on-call expertise to support researchers; user training; website development and maintenance; recommending and developing statistical functions; assisting with community liaison activities; coordinating with user groups both in the federal government and public; and providing system security. This was one of the first systems to apply GIS technology on a large scale to study the complex relationships between environmental exposures and cancer. L-3 developed a suite of tools and applications to support a geographic information system for breast cancer research as well as innovative ways to correlate temporal data with geospatial information to ease the analysis of epidemiological trends. The LI GIS system provides researchers with a highly innovative, investigative research tool for time-based analyses of demographic and environmental exposure variables. L-3’s computer scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and other health experts, supported by a panel of world-class researchers from Johns Hopkins University, extended GIS to new frontiers in technology. One of L-3’s premier achievements is the development of an interactive mapping application that accesses data from an underlying data warehouse and delivers maps via the Internet. The application has been showcased at various NCI and GIS conferences.