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2026-01-22
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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…
2014-02-26
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National Imagery and Mapping Agency filed filing with the SEC on 2014-02-26. Accession number: N/A.
2011-01-01
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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…
2005-11-01
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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…
2003-11-24
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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…
2003-06-25
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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…
2003-02-01
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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…
2002-08-01
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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…
1999-07-10
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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…
1999-05-07
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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…
1998-05-11
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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…
1996-10-01
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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…
