National Geospatial Intelligence Agency St. Louis, Missouri

One of two sites operated by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, outside of its headquarters in Virginia. This site, in St. Louis, next door to the Anheuser Busch brewery and the Mississippi River, has been operating for decades, as the Defense Mapping Agency, and then the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which became the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in 2003. The Agency provides location-based information to the federal government’s military and intelligence organizations. Their job, in a sense, is to know what everything is, and where it is, everywhere in the world, including in the USA. Its motto is "Know the Earth... Show the Way... Understand the World." A facility in Arnold, south of St. Louis, supports this facility, and together they are known as NGA West, and employ around a third of the Agency’s workforce.