Pending Review
NGA opened a new $1.7 billion campus (Next NGA West / N2W) in North St. Louis in 2025-2026, replacing its facility south of downtown St. Louis. The 97-acre campus was built under a $711.7 million design-build contract awarded to McCarthy HITT.
Date: 2026-01-22
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA was headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland (4600 Sangamore Road) until 2011, when NGA consolidated operations to Fort Belvoir North Area in Springfield, Virginia, as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act. The NGA headquarters is the third-largest building in the Washington Metropolitan Area, larger than CIA headquarters.
Date: 2011-01-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA was part of the intelligence failure to detect India's nuclear tests in May 1998. U.S. spy satellites had imaged activity at India's test site but intelligence analysts 'failed to discern that India was preparing to conduct the three nuclear blasts.' The failure was described as 'perhaps the greatest failure in a decade' by Senator Richard Shelby.
Date: 1998-05-11
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA was blamed for providing an outdated map that led to the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on May 7, 1999, killing three Chinese journalists. Defense Secretary William Cohen confirmed 'an out-of-date map was used' and 'the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map.' NIMA maps had also been implicated in the 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster and other military accidents.
Date: 1999-05-07
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Following Google's acquisition of Keyhole in October 2004 for an undisclosed sum, In-Q-Tel continued to hold 5,636 shares of Keyhole stock until November 2005 — roughly six months after Google Earth launched. During this period, the CIA and Google were co-owners of Keyhole equity.
Date: 2005-11-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA used Keyhole's EarthViewer 3-D during the Iraq War for military and intelligence purposes. Rob Zitz, Director of NIMA's InnoVision directorate, stated: 'Within two weeks of In-Q-Tel's engagement with Keyhole, we implemented the technology to support our mission within the Pentagon.' The technology was used to produce virtual flyovers of Iraqi cities and support targeting and situational awareness.
Date: 2003-06-25
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In February 2003, In-Q-Tel invested approximately $2 million in Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, California startup that developed sophisticated three-dimensional imaging technology used by NIMA. Within two weeks of the engagement, NIMA implemented Keyhole's technology to support military operations at the Pentagon and deployed it for U.S. troops during the Iraq War.
Date: 2003-02-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA became a limited partner with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, in the summer of 2002, working through the CIA. The Keyhole investment was In-Q-Tel's first engagement on behalf of NIMA. NIMA contributed approximately 25% of In-Q-Tel's funding of Keyhole Inc.
Date: 2002-08-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA had approximately 9,000 employees and a budget estimated at about $1 billion as of 1998-1999, according to the Washington Post. Its budget and employee count were officially classified. By 2013, NGA's budget was estimated at at least $4.9 billion with about 14,500 employees.
Date: 1999-07-10
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA was officially renamed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on November 24, 2003, authorized by the fiscal 2004 Defense Authorization Act. NGA Director Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. stated: 'Geospatial intelligence is what we do, and our agency's name now properly reflects that reality.'
Date: 2003-11-24
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
NIMA was established on October 1, 1996, by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, combining eight different agencies from the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, primarily the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), the Central Imagery Office (CIO), and elements of the CIA's satellite photo analysis operations.
Date: 1996-10-01
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Search scope note: No usaspending contracts found for "National Imagery and Mapping Agency" in automated database search as of 2026-04-13. This reflects search coverage limits, not confirmed absence from public record.
Added: 13 Apr 2026
Pending Review
National Imagery and Mapping Agency filed filing with the SEC on 2014-02-26. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2014-02-26
Added: 13 Apr 2026
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