The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.

NGA enables the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense to fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the nation. The agency is headquarted in Springfield, Virginia with two major locations in St. Louis, Missouri and Arnold, Missouri.

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NGA is a unique combination of a Department of Defense (DOD) combat support agency and a principal member of the U.S. intelligence community. NGA gives warfighters, the IC and first responders a worldwide, firsthand intelligence baseline for …

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The idea – to merge imagery and mapping elements from across the Department of Defense (DOD) and intelligence community (IC) – challenged conventional wisdom and threatened decades-long ways of doing business.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) delivers world-class geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals, and first responders.

NGA provides accurate, up-to-date geospatial intelligence to support our senior national decision makers as well as to help plan and prosecute military objectives.

In 1996, the US Congress, the CIA, and the Department of Defense agreed to combine the efforts of the country’s mapping and imagery analysis efforts, creating the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).

May 19, 2006 · BETHESDA, Md. (AFPN) -- It might not be a household name like, say, the CIA, but the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an integral part of the U.S. intelligence community. Geospatial intelligence is the collecting and analysis of …