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| - The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). In addition, NGA is a key component of the United States Intelligence Community.
- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). The NGA, as the functional manager for geospatial intelligence activities, is responsible for the development and evolution of the architecture for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG). As the functional manager for NSG, NGA actively communicates its architecture to members of the geospatial IC and promotes common standards and interoperability among NSG segments.
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| - The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). In addition, NGA is a key component of the United States Intelligence Community. NGA headquarters is located in Springfield, Virginia, and operates major facilities in the St. Louis, Missouri area, as well as support and liaison offices worldwide. The NGA was headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland until 2011, when NGA consolidated many of its regional activities as part of the Base Realignment and Closure into a new campus near Ft. Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia. The NGA campus, at 2.3 million square feet (214,000 m2), is the third-largest government building in the Washington Metropolitan Area, and its atrium is spacious enough to hold the Statue of Liberty. Its budget is classified but according to data leaked by Edward Snowden, in 2013 the organization received at least $4.9 billion. The NGA was credited by White House and military officials with providing critical information in support of Operation Neptune's Spear on May 2, 2011, in which the United States military raided a secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed Osama Bin Laden.
- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). The NGA, as the functional manager for geospatial intelligence activities, is responsible for the development and evolution of the architecture for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG). As the functional manager for NSG, NGA actively communicates its architecture to members of the geospatial IC and promotes common standards and interoperability among NSG segments. NGA is the IC's principal producer of and advisor for GEOINT. It prepares the geospatial data — ranging from maps and charts to sophisticated computerized databases — necessary for targeting in an era in which military operations are dependent upon precision-guided weapons. NGA works with commercial imagery and geospatial data vendors to procure diverse, unclassified imagery and geospatial information to better support its customers. NGA provides an NGA support team in direct support of each combatant command’s joint intelligence operations center (JIOC). The vision of NGA is to put the power of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) into its customers' hands:
* By providing online, on-demand access to its content, services, expertise, and support, along with the tools that allow users to serve themselves, and
* By broadening and deepening its analytic expertise, providing anticipatory analysis, and moving from a target-based model to an issue-driven, activity-based environment. The goal of NGA is, according to the agency, to use imagery and other geospatial information "to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth."
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