National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is an agency inside the United States Department of Defense. Their work is collecting, looking at, and giving out geospatial intelligence for national security. It was called the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) from 1996 to 2003.
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| Formed | October 1, 1996 (as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency) |
| Preceding agency | Defense Mapping Agency, Central Imagery Office, and Defense Dissemination Program Office |
| Headquarters | Fort Belvoir, Virginia, U.S.[1] |
| Employees | About 14,500[2] |
| Annual budget | Classified (at least $4.9 billion, as of 2013)[3] |
| Agency executives | Ronald Moultrie, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence VADM Frank D. Whitworth III, USN[4], Director Tonya Wilkerson, Deputy Director[5] Maj. Gen. Charles Cleveland, Associate Director for Operations |
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NGA headquarters, also known as NGA Campus East or NCE, is at Fort Belvoir North Area in Springfield, Virginia. The agency also runs major places in the St. Louis, Missouri area (referred to as NGA Campus West or NCW), they also have offices worldwide. The area of the NGA headquarters is 2,300,000 square feet (210,000 m2). It is the third-largest government building in the Washington metropolitan area after The Pentagon and the Ronald Reagan Building.[7]
NGA also helps during natural and man-made disasters, aids in security planning for major events such as the Olympic Games,[8] and gets data on climate change.[9]
The director of the agency is Vice Admiral Frank D. Whitworth III.[4]
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Media
Seal of the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)
NGA's old headquarters in Brookmont, Maryland prior to 2012. It had been the headquarters of NGA and its predecessor agencies since 1945. After the move to its current headquarters, this facility was renovated and became Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda.
NGA headquarters' atrium
References
- ↑ NGA Campus East Fact Sheet.
- ↑ About NGANational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ Gellman, Barton; Greg Miller (August 29, 2013). U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in 'black budget' summary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 United States Navy Flag Officers (Public), June 2022. MyNavyHR. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
- ↑ About NGA (August 5, 2021)National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- ↑ GSP - GSP. www.esa.int.
- ↑ Serbu, Jared. Geospatial intelligence HQ is now DC's 3rd largest federal office building. Federal News Radio (2011-09-27). Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ↑ About NGA.
- ↑ Perez, Lisbeth (June 3, 2021). "NGA Crunching Climate Change Data for National Security Decision-Making". MeriTalk. https://www.meritalk.com/articles/nga-crunching-climate-change-data-for-national-security-decision-making/. Retrieved June 30, 2021.