National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

During these years, NGA provided distinguished support to military campaigns, including Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and played a pivotal role in the 2011 raid on the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NGA’s GEOINT expertise has also been used to combat criminal activities across the globe, including work to hinder the production and distribution of narcotics and wildlife trafficking. Since the inception of NGA, the global landscape – and the threats emerging from that landscape – have continued to evolve. Connect with NGA in History on Facebook and Twitter . NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. At NGA, our mission is to answer those fundamental questions today, so we can help show the way to a better tomorrow. To a handful of visionaries, the challenges exposed by the Gulf War provided an opportunity to reimagine imagery and mapping assets into a single entity – what eventually became the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). More than just a name change, NGA cemented a new intelligence discipline – GEOINT – and gave rise to such developments as the establishment of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence, all of which ratified the innovative discipline and doctrine fueling the work of the agency.