# NGA The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is the US intelligence community's provider of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) — imagery, maps, and geospatial data that support military operations, intelligence analysis, and navigation. NGA analyzes satellite and aerial imagery collected by the [[NRO]] and other sources, producing the intelligence that tells military commanders what is on the ground, where it is, and how it has changed. Established in 1996 as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and renamed NGA in 2003, the agency employs approximately 14,500 people and is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with a major facility in St. Louis. NGA's products range from targeting coordinates for precision-guided munitions to the maps and navigation data used by GPS systems worldwide. ## See Also - [[NRO]] — builds and operates the satellites NGA's imagery comes from - [[NSA]] — signals intelligence counterpart - [[DIA]] — military all-source intelligence - [[Global Intelligence Hub]] — full agency index