GEOINTGeospatial intelligence (GEOINT) is a highly evolved intelligence discipline derived from the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information that describes, assesses and visually depicts physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. NGA’s analysts apply their tradecraft and advanced tools to evaluate imagery, maps, charts, multiple layers of foundation data (such as terrain, elevation, gravity and human geography) and more.

NGA MISSIONWe provide GEOINT for our Nation’s security

NGA VISIONKnow the Earth ... Show the Way ... Understand the World

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 NGA Overview

2 Our Missions

3 Our Partnerships

4 Our People

5 Our Locations

6 Foundation GEOINT

8 Directorates

10 NGA History

11 Acronyms

... THE WORLD LEADER IN TIMELY, RELEVANT, ACCURATE AND ACTIONABLE GEOINT ...

NGA Overview 1

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

Anyone who sails a U.S. ship, flies a U.S. aircraft, makes national policy decisions, fights wars, locates targets, responds to natural disasters or even navigates with a cellphone relies on NGA. NGA enables all of these critical actions and shapes decisions that impact our world through the indispensable discipline of GEOINT.

NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable GEOINT. NGA enables the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the nation. NGA also anticipates its partners’ future needs and advances the GEOINT discipline to meet them.

NGA manages a global consortium of more than 400 commercial and government relationships. In its multiple roles, NGA receives guidance and oversight from the DOD, the director of national intelligence and Congress.

The NGA director serves as the functional manager for GEOINT, the head of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG), and the coordinator for the Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence (ASG). In this capacity, the director is charged with synchronizing operations to realize a professional, interoperable, agile and integrated GEOINT enterprise.

GEOINT requires a wide array of foundation data, comprises a significant amount of information and analysis, and is crucial to other intelligence disciplines. Because of this, NGA supports diverse mission sets including strategic intelligence, warfighter support, homeland defense, safety of navigation, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, indications and warning, cyber threat analysis, and special event planning.

Often, NGA has the only ‘eyes’ focused on global hot spots and can give unique insight into these critical areas. NGA creates and maintains the geospatial foundation data, knowledge and analysis that enables all other missions.

NGA OVERVIEW

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OUR MISSIONS

Under Executive Order 12333, and in accordance with procedures approved by the attorney general of the United States, NGA is restricted in the collection of intelligence information directed against U.S. citizens. Collection is allowed only for an authorized intelligence purpose – for example, if there is a reason to believe an individual is involved in international terrorist or international narcotics activities. NGA also provides intelligence support to domestic disaster relief and special security events in the United States. NGA’s activities are conducted in a manner that protects the legal rights of all U.S. persons, including the freedoms, civil liberties, and privacy rights guaranteed by the Constitution and federal law.

STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCENGA provides GEOINT that allows the president and national policymakers to make crucial decisions on counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, global political crises and more.

WARFIGHTER SUPPORTNGA enables the DOD to plan missions, gain battlefield superiority, precisely target the adversary and protect our military forces.

INDICATIONS AND WARNING NGA often has the only ‘eyes’ focused on global hot spots and provides timely warnings to the warfighter and national decision-makers by monitoring, analyzing and reporting imminent threats.

SAFETY OF NAVIGATION NGA provides and maintains the maps, charts and publications for navigation in the air and on the seas with the most current information for U.S. military forces and global transport networks.

FOUNDATION GEOINTFoundation GEOINT — including topographic, elevation and terrain, land cover, and geodesy information — helps us describe the world in which we live. NGA leads the DOD and intelligence community in the production, procurement, assessment and cataloging of geospatial data.

HUMANITARIAN AND DISASTER RELIEF NGA supports federal agencies’ — such as the Department of State and the Federal Emergency Management Agency — responses to humanitarian and disaster response missions.

SPECIAL EVENT PLANNINGWhen requested, NGA supports planning for special events such as presidential inaugurations, state visits by foreign leaders, international conferences and major public events (e.g., Olympics, Super Bowl).

HOMELAND DEFENSENGA provides vital GEOINT that contributes to counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and border and transportation security efforts.

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NGA is committed to expanding its team across various organizations and advancing our contributions within the geospatial community. Nurturing relationships, building trust and investing in partnerships while breaking down unnecessary barriers are essential to cumulative success. The agency embraces the open geospatial community with the goal of increasing the overall value of combined enterprise efforts.

NGA supports its partners’ success through market leadership, global standards, universal services, professional training, analytic collaboration and expert advice. As the lead federal agency for GEOINT, NGA helps partners better serve and protect their customers every step of the way. NGA supports the capabilities of a global GEOINT enterprise and works to provide access to and confidence in the content, services and insights available across this vibrant and diverse marketplace on all domains.

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OUR PARTNERSHIPS

4 Our People

OUR PEOPLE

NGA invests in the career development of our employees by offering internal and external education and training opportunities, including leadership, professional development and foreign languages. The agency has an extensive array of careers, including the following specialty occupations:

NGA CAREERS

Imagery analysts

Geospatial analysts

Geospatial data stewards

Aeronautical analysts

Maritime analysts

Cartographers

Regional analysts

Geodetic scientists

Data scientists

Research analysts

Systems engineers

Image scientists

Photogrammetrists

Software developers

Web engineers

Enterprise architects

Information systems security specialists

Project scientists

TOTAL WORKFORCE:Approximately 14,500 employees

66% Civilian31% Contractor 3% Military

Approximately

60% of the workforce is in the greater D.C. area

Approximately

30% of the workforce is in St. Louis and Arnold, MO

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OUR LOCATIONS

NGA is headquartered at NGA Campus East in Springfield, Virginia, and has two major locations in St. Louis (NGA Campus West) and Arnold, Missouri. Hundreds of NGA employees serve on support teams at U.S. military, diplomatic and allied locations around the world. NGA employees work at more than 200 domestic* and international locations. We provide vital worldwide support to combatant commands, intelligence partners, military services and other government organizations.

COMBATANT COMMANDS

AFRICOM

CENTCOM

CYBERCOM

EUCOM

NORTHCOM

PACOM

SOCOM

SOUTHCOM

STRATCOM

TRANSCOM

DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

Central Intelligence Agency

National Security Agency

Defense Intelligence Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

National Reconnaissance Office

Department of Homeland Security

Department of State

Department of Defense

SERVICES

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Navy

U.S. Marine Corps

NASIC

NGIC

ONI

MCIA

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Foundation GEOINT comes from several sources including land, sea, air, science and research. This data provides the critical context for GEOINT to help explain what’s happening and where, as well as what could happen and when.

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FOUNDATION GEOINT

70 MILLIONHYDROGRAPHIC

FEATURES

5,000 Nautical Charts

3,900 Digital Nautical Chart Libraries

24/7 Worldwide Navigational Warning Service

16,500 U.S. Government and Commercial Vessels supported

11,000 Warnings sent to Mariners annually

1.3 BILLIONFEATURES IN THE TFDM DATABASE

104 Million Square Kilometers of Mono-orthorectified Imagery

92 Million Square Kilometers of Precise Stereo Imagery

41,000 Standard Maps

SEALAND

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4 BILLIONAERONAUTICAL DATA ELEMENTS

31 Million Vertical Obstructions

48,000 Airfields in Automated Air Facilities Intelligence File

28,000 Instrument Flight Procedures in Digital Aeronautical Flight

Information File

3,000 DOD Flights Supported Daily

270 MILLIONSQUARE KILOMETERS OF ELEVATION DATA

COVERAGE

125 Million Gravity Records

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World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS-84) Reference Frame

12 MILLIONGEOGRAPHIC NAMES

15,000 Feature Classes

800 Maritime and Land Boundaries

270 Maritime Claim Lines

35 Foreign Languages Spoken

AIR SCIENCEHUMAN

GEOGRAPHY

ANALYSIS (A)The Analysis Directorate delivers timely, relevant and actionable GEOINT in support of national security objectives, safeguarding U.S. interests at home and abroad.

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICE – TECHNOLOGY (CIO-T)The Chief Information Office and Information Technology is responsible for the implementation, management and communication of NGA’s nascent technical capabilities at the directorate and enterprise levels.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (FM)The Office of Financial Management’s mission is to drive sound resource decisions that advance GEOINT.

GEOINT ENTERPRISE OFFICE (G)The GEOINT Enterprise Office executes GEOINT Functional Management, leading and overseeing the NSG and ASG to realize a fully integrated and interoperable GEOINT Enterprise.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (HD)The Human Development Directorate recruits, hires, develops, recognizes

and retains a professional, highly skilled and diverse workforce to support current and future mission needs. HD is committed to quality customer service, offering benefits, nurturing leaders and providing academic programs to GEOINT professionals within the NSG.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (IA)International Affairs is responsible for leading NGA’s engagement with international partners to leverage their unique capabilities in support of U.S. national security objectives.

OFFICE OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS (OCC)The Office of Corporate Communications delivers timely and accurate communications to internal and external stakeholders in support of NGA’s strategic goals and serves as the primary resource and advisor to NGA leadership and employees on communications issues, strategies and techniques.

OFFICE OF CONTRACT SERVICES (OCS)The Office of Contract Services provides NGA timely access to industrial and academic resources, assisting NGA in meeting critical mission requirements

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DIRECTORATES

NGA has 14 directorates, each focused on a specific mission set. These directorates work together across the agency to accomplish NGA’s mission and maintain day-to-day readiness.

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and Congress to promote efficiency, economy and integrity in NGA programs.

RESEARCH (R)Research is NGA’s scientific research organization, responsible for continuously bringing powerful new capabilities into operations. It is also a trusted technical partner for the NSG against the hardest operational challenges. Research collaborates with other research organizations in government, industry, academia and international partners.

SECURITY AND INSTALLATIONS (SI)The Security and Installations Directorate enables GEOINT by providing premier protections, security and facilities. It comprises experts in installation operations, facilities management, security and counterintelligence, enabling secure online and on-demand access to GEOINT.

SOURCE (S)Source creates, collects and brokers authoritative GEOINT content and services based on customer needs and powered by unique command of the GEOINT supplier market, unparalleled tradecraft expertise and cutting-edge technology. Source’s key mission areas include collections, foundation GEOINT, safety of navigation and content dissemination.

and serving as the agency’s advocate for national objectives such as increasing small business, competition and commercial product awards.

DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (ODE)The Office of Diversity Management and Equal Employment Opportunity leads NGA’s culture change initiative which is focused on optimal mission accomplishment through an effectively led, competent, competitive and diverse workforce.

OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)The Office of General Counsel provides accurate and practical legal advice to enable NGA to accomplish its priority missions consistent with applicable law. It also renders legal opinions and interprets laws and regulations concerning intelligence oversight authorities.

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (OIG)The Office of the Inspector General provides independent, objective, performance-based evaluations that enable NGA leadership, employees

The U.S. has a long and proud history of GEOINT. From George Washington’s early days as a land surveyor; to World War I pilots taking aerial photos with handheld cameras; to analysts developing public websites addressing humanitarian crises and natural disasters, our tradecraft has changed significantly over time and continues to evolve to meet our nation’s needs.

Prior to the creation of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), NGA’s predecessor organization, there was no central agency designated to fulfill the DOD’s imagery and mapping needs. Recognizing this shortfall, in 1995 Secretary of Defense William Perry, Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili wrote a joint letter to Congress affirming their commitment to create a single mapping and imagery agency within the DOD.As a result, the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997 created NIMA on Oct. 1, 1996. NIMA improved the overall effectiveness and efficiency of imagery and mapping support to customers by streamlining processes

and designating a central resource. The new agency emerged from eight separate organizations. Organizations absorbed entirely included the Central Imagery Office, Defense Dissemination Program Office, National Photographic Interpretation Center and Defense Mapping Agency. In addition, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office each contributed elements of their operations specializing in imagery exploitation.

Seven years after its creation, to better reflect the agency’s emphasis on GEOINT, NIMA became the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Nov. 24, 2003. NGA’s headquarters moved to its current location in Springfield, Virginia, in 2011.

NGA and its predecessor organizations have been consistently instrumental in national defense. From NPIC analysts identifying missile sites in Cuba at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, to NIMA analysts aiding in recovery efforts following the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, NGA has made significant contributions to missions and operations that shaped history.

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NGA HISTORY

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NGA ACRONYMS

A AnalysisASG Allied System for Geospatial IntelligenceCIO-T Chief Information Office – TechnologyDMA Defense Mapping AgencyDOD Department of DefenseFM Financial ManagementG GEOINT Enterprise OfficeGEOINT Geospatial intelligenceGPS Global positioning systemHD Human DevelopmentIA International AffairsIC Intelligence communityKC Key componentNCE NGA Campus EastNCW NGA Campus WestNGA National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyNIMA National Imagery and Mapping AgencyNPIC National Photographic Interpretation CenterNSG National System for Geospatial IntelligenceOCC Office of Corporate CommunicationsOCS Office of Contract ServicesODE Diversity Management and Equal Employment OpportunityOGC Office of General CounselOIG Office of the Inspector GeneralR ResearchS SourceSI Security and Installations

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