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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 NGA Campus East, headquarters of the agency | |
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| Formed | October 1, 1996 (as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency) |
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| Headquarters | Fort Belvoir, Virginia, U.S.[1] 38°45′12″N 77°11′49″W / 38.7532°N 77.1969°W |
| Motto | "Know the Earth, Show the Way... from Seabed to Space" |
| Employees | About 14,500[2] |
| Annual budget | Classified (at least $4.9 billion, as of 2013)[3] |
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| Parent department | Department of Defense |
| Website | www |
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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.[5]
