The Pentagon is asking Congress for new authority to permit the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide imagery intelligence and geospatial information support to regional organizations with defense or security components and security alliances of which the United States is a member. The initiative, one of several Defense Department legislative proposals submitted to Congress this month, would be an expansion of existing authority that lets the agency, called NGA for short, share mapping, charting and geodetic data support. "Under current law,...
