  Archival data have been combined with recent observations of the Galactic
plane using the Very Large Array to create new catalogs of compact centimetric
radio sources. The 20 cm source catalog covers a longitude range of -20 deg < l
< 120 deg; the latitude coverage varies from +- 0.8 deg to +- 2.7 deg. The
total survey area is ~331 sq deg; coverage is 90% complete at a flux density
threshold of ~14 mJy, and over 5000 sources are recorded. The 6 cm catalog
covers 43 sq deg in the region -10 deg < l < 42 deg, |b| < 0.4 deg to a 90%
completeness threshold of 2.9 mJy; over 2700 sources are found. Both surveys
have an angular resolution of ~6 arcsec. These catalogs provide a 30% (at 20
cm) to 50% (at 6 cm) increase in the number of high-reliability compact sources
in the Galactic plane, as well as providing greatly improved astrometry,
uniformity, and reliability; they should prove useful for comparison with new
mid- and far-infrared surveys of the Milky Way.
