The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Office of Counterintelligence works to protect the agency’s capabilities, personnel, and facilities. NGA has established the Threat Mitigation Center, which is designed to further integrate and enhance its collaborative efforts in areas such as operational security, industrial security, and information assurance. To achieve synergy between the counterintelligence and law enforcement communities, NGA has established a full-time presence at ONCIX Community Acquisition Risk Section (CARS). NGA also created a Research Technology Protection Oversight Council to design, develop, implement, and evaluate tactics, techniques, and procedures required to protect new technologies through all stages of the acquisition, research, development, testing, and ev