NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). NGA enables the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense to fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the nation.

The agency is headquarted in Springfield, Virginia with two major locations in St. Louis, Missouri and Arnold, Missouri. Approximately 14,500 civilian, military and contractor employees work across more than 100 locations in the United States and 20 international locations serving on support teams at U.S. military, diplomatic and allied locations around the world. Read more...

When you want more than a job, you want a mission. Whether you’re analyzing data or conducting imagery analysis or providing mission support, a career with the NGA helps protect our nation and our world.

NGA has three primary locations in Springfield, Virginia, St. Louis, Missouri and Arnold, Missouri as well as opportunities to serve across the globe. You can learn more about NGA's locations here. 

Learn more about NGA's open opportunities, the career service options, the hiring process and the benefits of working with NGA. Learn More...

Status of Chinese Investments in Argentinian Lithium Mines

Chinese companies own or otherwise have significantly invested in six of 16 active lithium mining projects in Argentina, including four of the six most developed projects. Investment in these mines helps to further cement the People's Republic of China's dominance and control over the lithium industry, a mineral critical for the green-energy transition, particularly in the construction of lithium-ion batteries.

Seventy-five percent of the world's lithium is contained in the desert salt flats (salars) at the crossroads of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, which is known as the lithium triangle. Read more...  

Moonshot Labs is a cross-agency asset with an initiatives approach to measuring success and accountability. Opened in July 2021, NGA’s Moonshot Labs is an unclassified innovation hub and collider space for NGA, its partners and customers to meet, create, collaborate, and innovate. Moonshot Labs offers a preview of the unprecedented collaborative environment to come at the agency’s St. Louis campus when it opens in 2025. Read more... 

NGA's Director Whitworth delivered the keynote speech for the 2024 GEOINT Symposium held in Kissimmee, Florida. The theme of the conference — Essential in All Dimensions and Domains — allowed the director, on the first day of the Symposium, to discuss meeting the needs of warfighters and decision makers at speed and scale, the agency’s assessment of and investment in commercial analytic services, the way forward for GEOINT artificial intelligence and NGA’s role in space.

Click here  to read the remarks as prepared. 

(Photo courtesy of GEOINT Symposium)