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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency advises that cancelled electronic navigational charts may cause unintended behavior on electronic chart display systems.
Cancelled Electronic Navigational Chart (enc) Advisory · HYDROLANT 1204/25
- issued
- 2025-07-17 17:51Z
- status
- in force
- source
- nga_inforce · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
CANCELLED ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL CHART (ENC) ADVISORY. USERS OF NGA ENC PRODUCTS ARE ADVISED OF POTENTIAL UNINTENDED ECDIS BEHAVIOR WHEN PROCESSING CANCELLED CHARTS, INCLUDING REINSTALLATION OF RECENTLY CANCELLED CHARTS ON SOME SYSTEMS WITHOUT OBVIOUS ERROR OR WARNING MESSAGES. NGA HAS CONFIRMED THIS ISSUE AFFECTS NAVY VMS 9.5 AND RAYTHEON ANSCHUTZ SYNAPSIS NX SYSTEMS. THIS ISSUE DOES NOT AFFECT NAVY ECDIS. OTHER SYSTEMS ARE CURRENTLY UNASSESSED. USERS MAY REFERENCE NGA'S ENC CATALOG (GLOBAL OR REGIONAL PRODUCT LISTINGS) FOR A LIST OF CANCELLED CHARTS WHICH SHOULD BE UNINSTALLED FROM ECDIS. NGA'S GLOBAL ENC CATALOG IS AVAILABLE ON HTTPS://MCDP.NGA.MIL, WITH REGIONAL ENC PRODUCT LISTING SPREADSHEETS CONTAINED WITHIN EACH REGION'S ZIP ON ESYNC, NGA'S WEBSITES, AND WORLDCOVER DVD. USERS MAY FILTER PRODUCT LISTINGS FOR EDITION OF CXL AND SORT BY ISSUE DATE TO SEE MOST RECENT CANCELLATIONS. CHARTS CANCELLED WITHIN THE LAST 90 DAYS ARE ACTIVELY DISSEMINATED BY NGA AND MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES FOR INADVERTENT REINSTALLATION. NGA IS CONSULTING WITH THE USER COMMUNITY TO ASSESS POSSIBLE CHANGES TO THE CANCELLED CHART DISSEMINATION PROCESS TO MITIGATE THIS POTENTIAL UNINTENDED ECDIS BEHAVIOR.
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