Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda, Maryland

This campus, on a bluff across the Potomac from the CIA, is home to a few federal intelligence entities, including the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, National Intelligence University, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.  The campus was established in 1945, as an extension of the Army Map Service’s facilities next to the nearby Dalecarlia Reservoir. It grew and evolved along with the technologies and importance of global mapping for defense purposes, with the US Army Topographic Command, Defense Mapping Agency, and, finally, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which had three large buildings on site, mostly windowless, for security purposes. In 2005 the site was repurposed, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency moved to a new and much larger complex in Virginia. In 2012 the campus was transferred to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with the intention of providing a space for all 17 of the nation’s federal intelligence organizations to be represented, and was substantially modernized, with new buildings, and a grand re-opening in 2015.