Military Imagery Agency to be renamed.With the signing of the fiscal year 2004 defense authorization bill, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency will change its name to National Geo-spatial Agency (NGA). The name change is reflective of the agency's new role in providing more than just mapping and imagery, said Dave Burpee
The burpee is a calisthenic exercise performed to increase strength and explosiveness. , an agency spokesman. NIMA NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; US government) NIMA never in mitosis gene a (molecular biology) NIMA North Idaho Mycological Association "identified where we were in 1996," he said. The current name "keeps us on par with the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). , the National Security Administration and the Defense Intelligence Agency Noun 1. Defense Intelligence Agency - an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition DIA ." NGA will offer more detailed classified maps and images with higher detail resolution displaying more specific information, such as infrastructure. Established in October 1996, NIMA replaced the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), the Central Imagery Office (CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. ), the Defense Dissemination Program Office (DDPO DDPO Defense Dissemination Program Office DDPO District Development and Panchayat Officer ), and the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center. NIMA also assumed duties for imagery exploitation, dissemination and processing elements of the Defense intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office Noun 1. National Reconnaissance Office - an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental and the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Other changes underway at NIMA include focusing on surveillance needs instead of reconnaissance and moving away from government-only imagery, said retired Gen. James Clapper, NIMA's director. "Commercial imagery is crucial," said Clapper. Industry provided satellite imagers that aided U.S. and British forces in the planning and seizure of the Al Faw Peninsula in southern Iraq last March, said Clapper. Commercial images also helped coalition forces measure water levels at the Qadisiyah Dam. U.S. forces were concerned that water released from the dam, which is on the Tigris River, would flood the area north of Baghdad. NIMA recently awarded a potential $500 million, five-year contract to DigitalGlobe, Inc. of Colorado, for low-cost commercial imagery, under a program called NextView. Under the contract, NIMA commits to investing in DigitalGlobe's satellite development, in exchange for early participation and access to the next generation of U.S. commercial satellite imaging capabilities. |
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