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Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) provides worldwide scientific and
technical intelligence concerning threat guided missile systems, directed energy
weapons, selected space programs or systems, and related command, control, and
communications to support operationally deployed forces. MSIC has experts
knowledgeable on SAMs as well as short-range ballistic missiles.
National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) produces finished, all-source medical
intelligence in support of military planning and operations. Assessments, forecasts, and
databases are prepared on worldwide infectious disease occurrence, global
environmental health risks, foreign military and civilian health care capabilities and
trends, and militarily significant life science technologies.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is the primary national producer of
geospatial-intelligence, which is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial
information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically
referenced activities on the earth. Products include controlled imagery, digital elevation
data and selected feature information, which can be rapidly augmented and fused with
other spatially referenced information such as intelligence, weather and logistics data
resulting in an integrated, digital view of the mission space. NGA also produces many of
the maps and charts Airmen use for mission planning.
National Security Agency is a combat support agency which employs mathematicians,
linguists, engineers, and computer scientists focusing on signals intelligence and
information assurance. NSA’s employees collect, process, analyze, and exploit
adversaries’ communications. NSA maintains its headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland
and has four cryptologic centers, each with a regional focus.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a combat support agency charged with
developing methods to deal more effectively with threats by nuclear, radiological,
chemical, biological, and high explosive weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and
preventing future threats. The agency focuses DOD efforts to prepare for and respond
to WMD attacks. These technologies provide commanders options for effective
targeting against enemy WMD capabilities, WMD delivery methods, and underground or
hardened structures, as well as enhanced capabilities to assess enemy WMD
operations.
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is a combat support agency
responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring, fielding, and supporting global net-
centric solutions and operating the Defense Information System Network. DISA seeks to
guarantee our forces global information dominance by providing jointly interoperable
systems that have assured security, survivability, availability, and superior quality.
Because of DISA’s expertise in developing, maintaining, and protecting US information
methods, they may prove useful in developing targeting strategies to attack enemy
information methods and systems.