Spy Agency Few Know Gets Free Land for HQ

A US spy agency's new $1.7 billion western headquarters will be constructed in St Louis, Missouri...

NGA Campus East, the headquarters of the agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) hopes to build its new western HQ in north St Louis, where it was offered free land...

So what exactly is the NGA?

The NGA is part of the Department of Defense and works with the CIA and the Air Force to provide intelligence that is largely geographical in nature...

According to the NGA, "anyone who sails a U.S. ship, flies a U.S. aircraft, makes national policy decisions, fights wars, locates targets, responds to natural disasters, or even navigates with a cellphone relies on NGA." more