How NGA predecessor agencies accomplished the unprecedented task of navigating NASA to the moon By Jessica Daues, NGA Office of Corporate Communications Graphics by Sarah Hall, NGA Office of Corporate Communications Fifty years ago, in a brick ranch house off Lindbergh Boulevard in south St. Louis County, Dave Alspaugh sat…

By Jessica Daues, NGA Office of Corporate Communications Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, delivered a keynote address at the GEOINT 2019 Symposium June 3 in San Antonio, Texas, where he discussed what it will take for NGA to be successful in its mission now…

April 10, 2019 By Shelby Wratchford, NGA Office of Corporate Communications

How does NGA love GPS? Let us count the ways — By Jessica Daues, NGA Office of Corporate Communications Graphics by Sarah Hall and Beth Neise, NGA Office of Corporate Communications On Feb. 14, 1989, the first Block II satellite was launched, marking the beginning of a final phase in the development of a workable Global Positioning System, or GPS. In…

By NGA Office of Corporate Communications The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency joined in the Geography Awareness Week celebrations with a variety of activities, from Missouri to New York to Virginia, Nov. 11–17. We kicked off the week with an introduction to human geography. Elizabeth Lyon, NGA Senior GEOINT Authority for Geography…

Repurposed from Pathfinder, Winter 2014 By NGA Office of Corporate Communications The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to continue in 2014 as part of a historic U.S. Coast Guard mission to recover three World War II-era U.S. service members entombed in 40 feet of Greenland ice. The search for Coast Guardsmen…

Repurposed from Disturbed Geographer, June 20, 2015 Contributions of the HOUGHTEAM to modern geodesy During the spring of 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Berlin, members of a special U.S. military unit discovered a large cache of geodetic material in a remote warehouse in Saalfeld, Germany. These archives contained…

By Jay D. Krasnow A year before 3 million fans arrived in South Africa from across the globe to attend one of the largest international sporting events in the world, the 19th FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency began providing critical geospatial intelligence to support the massive…

By Dr. Gary E. Weir “I [finally] have an opportunity to get off a letter to Paris…. [T]he railroads are being used by the military — I only know that war is inevitable now,” the American photographer Edward Steichen wrote to his friend Alfred Stieglitz in New York in one…